Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Bernardes of Brazil: "I sent a message of congratulation to The New York World, which promoted the New York-to-Rio flight of Pilot Hinton. I referred to aviation as 'that enterprise in which the Americans are unsurpassed- having given wings...
Even since the first development of aviation, fogs, mists, and clouds have been a hindrance, and have often rendered successful flight impossible. Therefore the army joined forces with men of science to discover a method by which such clouds might be precipitated in the form of rain. But although experiments have been carried on for more than a year and a half, they have never achieved complete success until five days ago. At that time onlookers might have heard an aeroplane pass far above their heads, seen the air grow clear in its path, and feel drops of rain fall...
...arrival at Rio de Janeiro of Lieutenant Hinton of NC-4 and runaway balloon fame, in the flying ship Sampaio Correia II calls attention to another air achievement which will help to restore popular confidence in the commercial possibilities of long distance flying. The flight of the Sampaio Correia over the five and a half thousand miles between Pensacola and the capital of Brazil was accomplished in little over a hundred hours...
Besides performances by other well known Boston skaters, a fantasy entitled "The Flight of the Princess Aurora" will be given in which Mrs. Charles Blanchard, formerly Miss Theresa Weld, national amateur woman's fancy skating champion, S. C. Badger '23, national amateur fancy skating champion, and N. W. Niles '09, formerly Olympic pair champion with Mrs. Blanchard, will take the leading parts. There will be also exhibitions of speed skating. The final number on the program will be the hockey match between Radcliffe and a team of the Junior League...
...clock. Mrs. Charles Blanchard, formerly Miss Theresa Weid, national amateur woman's fancy skating champion, S. C. Badger '23, national amateur fancy skating champion and N. W. Niles '09, former Olympic pair champion with Mrs. Blanchard, will take the leading parts in a fantasy entitled "The flight of the Princess Aurora...