Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years passed she flew far and often. Her longest ride was from Egypt to France; her most widely advertised, a routine flight from London to Paris on which the plane, forced down, was reported missing for two days. She had also engrossed herself in many an outdoor sport; designed a ski to eliminate ankle wrenches; 'designed an "anti-sea-sickness cot" for ocean voyagers...
...Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim was, obviously, wealthy. Early this summer Capt. Leslie Hamilton, British War flyer, commercial stunt flyer called the "Flying Gypsy," besought her backing for a transatlantic flight. The Princess trusted Captain Hamilton. For many years she had known him and flown with him. She advanced the money...
...Upavon, 75 miles away, Captain Hamilton and his flight companion Lieut. Col. Frederick F. Minchin, denied reports that they would take a passenger. Skeptics noted a wicker chair fastened by one leg to the floor of the ship's tiny cabin. Not many hours later, just after dawn, these skeptics saw piled around the wicker chair two brief cases, two red hat boxes and a little wicker basket...
More than $140,000 has been offered for transatlantic flights. Raymond Orteig's $25,000 for a flight between New York and Paris was won by the then Capt. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's $15,000 was won by the Cham-berlin-Levine flight to Germany. About $100,000 rests unclaimed. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin posted $25,000 for a flight from Europe to Philadelphia; the Boston Chamber of Commerce pledged $25,-000 for a flight from Europe to Boston; the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce will give $25,000 for a plane to alight...
...hoped to drop as a memorial into the vast grey sea. ¶For nearly a mile a huge Farman Bluebird snorted and rolled, gathering speed at Le Bourget Field, Paris. It rose, surprising some, for it weighed twelve tons. It was the largest ship yet to attempt the transatlantic flight. It rose slowly. Vainly Leon Givon and Pierre Corbu, French flyers, tried to put it above 1,000 feet. Pointing westward, they found a blinding mist. After a three-hour struggle, they felt it foolhardy to fly through fog with 1,000 feet maximum altitude, gave up temporarily the transatlantic...