Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four weary "air Magellans," burnt by the wind, lined by the sun, reached Seattle, their round-the-earth goal. There they endured their final ovation, with sirens shrieking, crowds cheering, orators expanding. Among the first to greet them was Major Martin, who commanded the flight at the start, 175 days before. Major General Charles G. Morton was there, representing President Coolidge and Secretary of War Weeks. He summarized in a few well-chosen words...
Four international records were established when the flyers completed their 27,000-mile flight: the crossing of the Pacific by plane; the crossing of the China Sea; the circling of the globe in a heavier-than-air machine; and a speed-mark for the same of 366 hours flying time. In the past year, aviators of four other nations attempted to circle the globe. They were...
Last week, off Port Washington, L. I., a man in a U. S. Navy seaplane flew at an average speed of 227 miles an hour for 30 minutes, at one time attaining a speed of 242 miles. The man was Lieut. David Rittenhouse. The flight established a record. The previous mark of 169 miles an hour was set by Lieut. Rittenhouse himself at Cowes, England, last year...
...round-the-world flight which has just been completed by the army airmen was a great undertaking, but it was not all-important. Even in 1872, before the day of flying machines, the trip around the world was made in seventy-two days, three months shorter time than that of the flyers. The army justifies the night by saying that they collected valuable data on air-currents, many maps, and general information which might be useful in time of war. They do not stress the point that all this knowledge was gained by agents before the flight, and that...
...flight was popular because it was so purely an American gesture. Things were done in a big way--ships stationed every hundred miles on the ocean, spare engine parts sent all over the world, and when the fliers got back home, landing fields banked with flowers, and covered with huge, gasping crowds. It was a triumphant national boast, flung in the face of the world; and like every really good boast, it contained a certain element of futility...