Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for Divorce. John Henry Mears, globe-circler whose record (23 days, 15 hr., 21 min., established in 1928) was only surpassed by the Graf Zeppelin's flight; by Mrs. Marian Mears at Oakland, Calif. Grounds: non-support...
...Morrow, at his left, smiled gravely. The populace screamed: "Viva . . . viva Sidar . . . viva Sidar el loco" [The crazy, reckless]. All this last week as Col. Pablo Sidar, 30, Mexico's "first" flyer since the death of Capt. Emilio Carranza (TIME, July 23, 1928), returned to Mexico City from a flight around South and Central America and Cuba. President Portes Gil pinned Mexico's first medal "For Aeronautic Merit, ist Class" on him. El Loco picked up his President and bussed him on both cheeks. Ambassador Morrow he saluted snappily...
Goebel Battered. Col. Arthur C. Goebel, who with Lieut. William Davis Jr. won the Dole Flight to Hawaii in 1927, was barrel-rolling over Los Angeles municipal airport last week to celebrate the return of 43 Los Angeles planes from a California tour. While he was upside down a dry cell from his battery broke loose and bashed him on the forehead. Dazed, he continued his inverted flight. When he righted himself and blood slopped into his eyes he landed quickly, was bandaged, then went up again...
This was the agreed plan: the Vagabond was to journey out to Michigan by air. But in no ordinary fashion. The new British dirigible R-101 was scheduled for a secret flight to these shores, being due to arrive at the Vagabond's private mooring post, Memorial Hall Tower, sometime late last night...
This week-end the Flying Club is undertaking its first cross-country flight of the season. The plane, piloted by R. Gilmor '31 and G. Rand '32, will fly to the Aviation Country Club at Hicksville, Long Island, today and will be flown from there by other members who are spending the week-end on Long Island. The purpose of the flight is to provide experience in cross-country flying for qualified pilots, and to create an outside interest in the club and its activities...