Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magellans took off (in two planes), flew to Chicago under perfect conditions in the easiest hop of their trip around the earth (TIME, Mar. 24 et seq.). In a windless Windy City, cheering crowds, notables, bands, committees, orators were on hand to welcome them. Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, Flight Commander, issued a statement. Said he: "The next time we go around the world, it is going to be in a boat...
...identity of the supposed victim of an airplane accident near Squantum on Wednesday, September 25, has been discovered to be W. A. Spurr, a Senior at Harvard. Spurr, who was taking part in a naval reserve flight on Wednesday, said yesterday that he was flying at a high rate of speed close to the ocean, and disappeared behind some land, there by starting the rumor that the plane liad disappeared in the ocean...
...rigors of man. In his native Christiania, he filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy and asked for a public receivership, believing that he is solvent. Some time ago (TIME, July 7, AERONAUTICS) he was unable to pay for two airplanes which he had ordered for a polar flight...
Leaving behind the cacaphony of whistles, horns, bells, shouting crowds, the flight swung east again, over Long Island. At Mitchel Field (Mineola), the heroes coasted down, stepped to earth to the tune of 21 guns. Military etiquette was forgotten in the rush of welcoming officials. Followed speeches, interminable handshaking, gold cigarette cases "from the people of New York," a statuette from Italo-Americans...
...smoke as a guiding signal. As the planes flew overhead and down to the beflagged moorings in Ice Tickle, the Richmond's siren shrieked a welcome. On a cliff overlooking the mooring place was fixed a brass plate, made on the Richmond, already engraved: "American aviators completed world flight, Aug. 31, 1924." The trip was not "complete," having started from Santa Monica, Cal. But the fliers were back in North American waters, 5 months and 14 days after leaving them...