Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mabel Boll, "Queen of Diamonds," whose trans-Atlantic conversation enlisted the aid of famed Passenger Charles A. Levine; who has been photographed in innumerable poses beside innumerable planes, whose flight to Rome has been a day-by-day concern of the tabloids, sailed quietly on the He de France. Big, buxom, German Thea Rasche, another trans-Atlantic threat, also looked up steamship sailings...
Airplane manufacturers swelled with pride and anticipation, each confident his make would perform most dependably on the long flight to Texas, to California, Oregon and back through the Northwest. Manufacturer Edsel B. Ford, donor of the four-foot, silver and green marble trophy, acted as starter, watched his own new models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious...
Ceiling, absolute: Maximum height at which a given airplane could maintain horizontal flight...
Zoom: To climb for a short time at an angle greater than that which can be maintained in steady flight, the airplane being carried upward at the expense of its kinetic energy...
...Nobile safe, Pilot Lundborg attempted a second relief flight. His Fokker crashed on the ice, overturned. Six castaways, Italian and Swedish, awaited rescue...