Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trace of the missing plane was found and hope was all but abandoned. Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson were ordered to go on, however. They flew 350 miles to Atka Island, prepared to go another 530 miles to Altu Island, when they were scheduled to make their longest flight- 878 miles to Shimushu Island near Japan...
...British world fliers, arrived from the North at the Kurile Islands off Japan, after a two months' adventurous and turbulent voyage in the Canadian trawler Thiepval. Broome established bases on Behring Island, Attu and other places in the Aleutians in preparation for MacLaren's trans-Pacific flight. There was no doubt that even with the best of luck this is extremely dangerous territory. Martin's disappearance only served to emphasize its hazards. Broome left nothing undone to insure success although he called the undertaking "at long odds a gamble at best...
Ballooning is an ancient sport which dates back to 1784, when the hot air bag invented by the Montgolfier brothers made its first man-carrying flight from the gardens of the Tuileries in the presence of Louis XVI of France and of Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin, foremost scientist of the day, was asked what use the balloon was, he cautiously countered: "Of what use is a newborn infant?" And the balloon has indeed been the precursor of many mighty dirigibles. Per se its utility is small. Kite balloons, a variant ol the spherical balloons used for sporting purposes, are useful...
With the comfortable feeling that the World Cruise was sailing safely on its way, newspapers and public began to lose interest in the great adventure. But the feeling of security was false. From Sitka, Alaska, to Seward, Alaska, the 610 miles of coast-wide flight proved highly dangerous. Ideal weather at the start was followed by a blinding snow- storm, and a collision just avoided by the aviators, who were flying "close" to maintain contact...
...first floor is the Auditorium approached by a wide flight of steps. The Auditorium, which is built like an amphitheater, seats approximately one thousand men. The stage has on either side of it small rooms for the professors. The interior of this Auditorium with its domed coiling, will be impressive from its size and proportions, rather than from its richness of detail...