Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heart is in the air; notwithstanding that he never learned to fly. He tried hard. He spent weeks, months, under the patient tutelage of Lieut. Frederick H. Becker at the Curtiss Field School. He got along all right when Becker was with him. But on his first solo flight he sat frozen at the controls, and missed collision in a crowded sky by sheer...
...houses, scientific baggage, and a season's supply of provender. Commander Byrd will set up his base on the Bay of Wales, across the Antarctic Continent from Deception Island (among the South Shetlands), where Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, a fortnight ago, made tests for his South Polar flight (TIME, Dec. 3). The Wilkins Expedition is rather a tour de force, another example of intrepidity. Of necessity a swift affair, its scientific observations can be only bird...
...Nonetheless it wants business builders to settle there and for that purpose hired a smart secretary for its Chamber of Commerce-Milton M. Murray. When Bernt Balchen (who is with Commander Byrd now) and the late Floyd Bennett were testing the Josephine Ford plane for the Byrd North Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights. That experience gave him a personal interest in the present Byrd expedition; his job gave him a practical interest. Hence his cablegram to Commander Byrd last week: "Dunedin, Florida, joins Dunedin...
...remaining weeks of flying time the Club is planning to undertake two or possibly more cross-country flights. One will probably consist of a trip to Colonel Green's airport at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a one hour flight each way. The other flight will in all probability be to either the Worcester or Hartford airport. While the pilots for the flight have not been announced as yet the foremost candidates are: W. N. Bump '29. T. P. Sproul '29, L. D. Parker '31, and P. H. Moon '32. This flying time, plus that of the regular operation at the Boston Airport...
Stinson Aircraft Corp. Northville, Mich. / Stinson-Detroiter / Passenger & cargo / . . . . . . .$6,750-$12,500 / Two biplanes used by Wilkins for his Arctic Expedition, 1927. A Stinson monoplane The Pride of Detroit was used by Brock & Schlee for their Newfoundland-Japan flight...