Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...barely missing the towing plane of Lieut. William T. Atkinson, although the target trailed 2100 ft. behind it. Said he, after towing his target ten times across the firing area, "We could see the shells burst high to the right and in front of our plane." Said another flight lieutenant: "We're used to that...
...Nome, Alaska. Though equipped with radio, the Maude has not been heard from directly for months. Presumably she was been withholding gasoline from her power generators, for use in crashing the floes. Hearing of her return, Explorer Amundsen, in Copenhagen, conferring with German dirigible experts upon a proposed pole-flight in 1926, offered the Maude for sale to satisfy his creditors...
...trial flight, MacMillan and Byrd crossed Smith Sound to Sabine Point on Ellesmere Island, where Lieut. A. W. Greeley wintered in 1884, losing 18 soldiers by starvation. Soaring 90 miles farther westward, the planes came to the head of Froler Bay, turned and were back in camp in an hour, having covered in two hours a route of 200 miles which would have taken dogs and sledges a fortnight...
...they had commuted 44 times from Chartres to Étampes, covered a distance of 2,732 miles. Then they stayed in the air over the airdrome nearly another two hours, making it in all 45 hr., 11 min., 59 sec.?a new world's non-stop flight record...
People who remembered the old non-stop record?the 2,520-mile flight from Mineola, L. I., to San Diego, made by Lieutenants Kelly and Macready in 1923 ?curled their lips. To that hazardous leap the ta,me to-and-froing of the Frenchman seemed like a little boys' game. Not so is the purpose for which this game was undertaken?a training test for a direct flight from Paris to New York. Landry, Drouhin, will attempt...