Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remains the problem of how to get started. At present the automobile acts as starter. Later Inventor White plans to take off from hillsides after installing a two and a half horsepower compressed air motor to get him up and give the 100 "wing flaps per minute necessary for flight...
...days after alighting on Hawaiian grass, the four of the Southern Cross planned to do something that no man had ever before attempted: a 3,138-mile flight entirely over water, aiming at a pinhead in the Pacific called Suva in the Fiji Islands. The 850 inhabitants of Suva were atwitter with anticipation; the municipal council gave orders to cut down trees and remove electric wires in Albert Park, so as to make a landing field for the Southern Cross...
...sent a babble of reports every few minutes, and the world knew that they were fighting clouds, wind and storm for more than 30 hours. They grew haggard. Suva waited. They saw Suva. Then with engines roaring but little louder than the crowd, they landed, their longest overwater flight accomplished, their gasoline almost gone...
Soon after 5 o'clock in the morning the three motors of the Trimotored Fokker monoplane Friendship, which Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold several weeks ago when he decided not to use it on his proposed South-Polar flight, began to hum. The ship taxied out from the boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly...
...course, the Pops must remain popular concerts, and in the present state of musical appreciation, this means the playing night after night throughout the season of those excerpts from important music that have the widest appeal. But that even here there are possibilities beyond the March Slave and The Flight of the Bumblebee has been realized by the conductor...