Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still in the student class, although she has made her first solo flight and that while the ground was covered with snow...
...attach to this note a significance of magnitude as showing Mr. Hadden's tolerant attitude with regard to criticism. I had written TIME a caustic letter in regard to an item about Mr. Levine's evolutions in his lone flight from Paris to London. This note was his courteous reply...
...aerodynamics of gliding is that of motored flight. First airplanes lacked motors. Otto Lilienthal, air pioneer (anda German) was killed by his glider falling. But few others have had serious accidents...
Brownsville to Panama. His face a triangular scowl of fatigue and vexation, Captain Ira Eaker, who flew the famed Question Mark seven days without landing (TIME, Jan. 14), last week tried a dawn-to-dusk flight over the 1,950 miles between Brownsville, Tex., and Panama. Fog over Mexico and Guatemala and headwinds a great part of the way obliged him to descend at Managua, Nicaragua, 550 miles from goal...
Montevideo to Manhattan. From Montevideo, Uruguay, a Colonel Cesario Berisso, Major Roget Otero and Mechanic Dagoberto Moll took off last week for a 15-stage flight via the Argentine, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico City, Laredo, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, to Manhattan, U. S. Army flyers two years ago included most of this route, on their goodwill voyage. So did the Italian flyer de Pinedo. But not yet has a South American accomplished...