Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whirling propellers and hopping aviators have, during the last fortnight, brought the Hawaiian Islands into front page headlines of U. S. newspapers. First came the flight of Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger (TIME, July 11). Last week Civilians Smith and Bronte fell just short of duplicating the Army airmen's feat (see p. 28). Thus almost every U. S. citizen, reasonably literate, knows that the Hawaiian Islands are some 2,400 miles west of San Francisco and are so situated as to form an excellent target for far-flying aviators...
Hence the unusual crowds last week at St. Andrews, cradle of golf. They banked the fairways with solid walls of humanity, 20,000 strong. An obscure Frenchman named Rene Golias led half the qualifying play with a 71, and Cyril Tolley, the ponderous English amateur, led the whole flight with 144. But the main galleries followed "Bawby" Jones. Excursion trains stopped to watch him. Clergymen, grandmothers, policemen, cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite...
...planes could brake themselves on the air and alight as abruptly as birds do by reversing the thrust that gives them flight, aviation would be vastly safer and more convenient. To this end, Inventor C. Francis Jenkins of Washington, D. C., radio and television expert, has been applying himself lately to discover a literal "air brake." Last week he announced success...
...flying world, stirred up as never before by three transatlantic flights within 41 days, buzzed everywhere with ambitious designs. Notable among the flight-planners were...
...whose private plans were virtually complete. He made Pilot Drouhin an offer (reputedly $150,000) which Pilot Drouhin, whose wife was about to have a baby, could not well refuse. Pilot Drouhin said he accepted in order to be the first Frenchman to reach New York by non-stop flight...