Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pacific Coast racers, coming up from San Francisco, landed the same afternoon; the winner of $1,500 for the 900-mile flight was N. C. Lippiatt in a Travelair biplane...
Nineteenth Day. The Pride of Detroit dropped at Tokyo. There Mr. Schlee found a cablegram: "Daddy: Please take the next boat home to us. We want you. (signed) Rosemarie." Rosemarie is ten. Soon wires under the Pacific were alive with news that the around-the-world flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu...
...brought her to dwell upon qualities of air, shadow and faint fragrance in her objective scenes. When she paints a mesa, she remembers the cloud mesa above it. Two bronzed runners passing over some sand dunes remind her of "the shadows that eagles cast in their strong, unhurried flight...
...Mirror: "I will gladly give $25,000 to the captain and the crew of the ship which finds them." He also published telegrams through which he said, "I did my best to prevent him [Philip Payne] from going." Also, a telegram sent to Editor Payne prior to the flight: "I will not assume responsibility, but will proceed only if the Government will assume authority and responsibility." Editor Payne replied: "Secretary of Aviation F. Trubee Davison and Department of Commerce pronounce...
...Cleveland landing field in order that the passengers may have an opportunity to stretch their legs and see something of Cleveland's famous Air Port." Souvenirs. Brighter than a boast of being a "first air tourist" is the ticket Thos. Cook & Son have ordered for their first flight. It "will be printed on parchment paper and will be about the size and general appearance of college diplomas. The members of this pioneer tour can then frame their tickets and keep them as souvenirs. A special sticker for the handbags of the flying tourists is also being prepared in orange...