Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leagues and leagues from Florence, far into the icy fastnesses of the North Pole, the old gentleman's son, Lincoln Ellsworth, had flown with Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway a fortnight before (TIME, June 1). The father had made their flight possible with a purse of $100,000 after twice discountenancing the adventure and urging his son to rest with him in the mellow ease and quiet of old-world culture with which he had surrounded himself. Now, dying, he pondered his surrender, weighed the dangers over and over, longed for news?but passed without hearing...
George Binney (leader of the 1924 Oxford arctic flight, holder of the furthest north flying record-N. L. 80 deg., 15 min.) : "He will stroll back to Europe, I have little doubt...
...Wilhelm Filchncr, of Germany, who was prevented from attempting a polar flight with Amundsen in 1914 by the declaration of war: "I have the most complete and utter confidence in Amundsen. For a man of his vast polar experience and knowledge, no hindrances exist. . . . He knows the location of all food depots and it is much too early to begin talking rescue...
...kinds of students: those who have finished, those who have not. At such a time the great mediaeval problem of distinguishing between the saved and the damned resolves itself into a simple matter of time. Already the great trek, the annual hegira, the exodus, the migration, the wholesale flight from Cambridge has begun. Happy youths gloat over and display to friends long yards of tickets to the mountains, to the lakes, to Europe (including Paris), to anywhere--it doesn't matter much--so long as the passage reads "from Cambridge...
...Loening Amphibians to be used in the MacMillan expedition (TIME, Apr. 20) passed their tests last week, after a highly satisfactory flight from Mitchel Field, L.I., to the Naval Air Station at Anacostia, Washington, D.C, and were formally accepted. In acceptance trials, the OL-1, as the Amphibian is officially designated, attained a height of 14,000 ft, made a speed of 125 mi. per hour and climbed more than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision...