Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Driggs was instrumental in starting the transoceanic trip of the Nc-4, and was a friend of Brigadier-General Maitland, who piloted the R-34 across the Atlantic. He was the organizer of the two greatest races of 1919, the one between New York and Toronto, and the transcontinental flight between New York and San Francisco...
Little more than a month has passed since three naval officers left the air station at Rockaway in a balloon. But in that month their flight, ostensibly made on experimental purposes, has aroused throughout the country a degree of interest in naval aeronautics that is surpassed only by the transatlantic trip of the four "NC" biplanes. Besides the desire to know the reasons for a flight which so nearly ended in disaster, there is also a justifiable curiosity concerning the reports of the journey--reports that contradict each other at almost every turn. The days of melodrama for melodrama...
...reporters, and the inevitable misunderstandings between men who have been deprived of all human intercourse for nearly a month, were chiefly responsible for the unfortunate incident which marred the return of the trio. The investigation ordered by Secretary Daniels should bring to light many interesting facts. Now that the flight is ended, and its purpose--whatever it was--accomplished, there can be no cause for further secrecy. Perhaps if the truth is known, it will put an end to any more such "experimental" flights...
...Aeromarine Seaplane, type 39-B, which the society used at Marblehead, last winter, and which was "crashed" during a flight across the lake chain of southern New Hampshire to Lake Champlain last summer, is now being repaired and converted into a land plane. The reason for substituting landing gear for the pontoons is that there are better facilities for land flying in eastern Massachusetts and not that the flying and instructing which members of the society did last spring, using Marblehead harbor as a base, was a failure...
...behold! These were not jokes, to be laughed at, but solemp warnings in disguise, to be taken seriously! The Women's Christian Temperance Union has actually announced its intention to flight tobacco...