Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Margaret Ross Lansdowne, widow of Commander Zachary Lansdowne, was also called because she had declared that Commander Lansdowne had objected to the flight. She appeared in weeds, read a brief statement and was excused without examination. Her testimony introduced no new facts, was merely her interpretation of the correspondence between Commander Lansdowne and his superiors already in the record...
Heinen: "No, it was not possible. The piling up of evidence of the danger was so great and so varied that it would have been on this occasion impossible for me not to have seen it. ... My opinion of Captain Lansdowne as an aerologist is not changed with this flight. It is the same now as it was before, for I know that he was making his observations as closely as he possibly could. I only say here that he made a mistake in judgment because he had not quite enough experience. My opinion of Captain Lansdowne as a pilot...
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN-The strange tale of a girl who shot her stepfather and was aided in her flight from justice by a gang of tramps...
...attention of newspapers was largely centered on the question whether Commander Lansdowne had been ordered to take the flight in spite of his protest. Official correspondence showed that it had been ordered in July, but that Commander Lansdowne had objected that midsummer was a thunderstorm period and had asked that it be postponed until September. Later he recommended that it take place during the second week of September. Instead it was ordered in the first week of the month. To this order he did not object. The purpose of setting the date for the flight...
Down the steep gully of Park Ave., Manhattan, rang a flight of bells. It was a cheery Sunday midday. Sunlight drenched the apartment houses, and winked from windows as from a thousand little rain-pools; but the burghers of Park Ave. shivered in their sleep...