Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extended journey on the swift Twentieth Century Limited with no stops or layovers; no dimming of lights by night, nor shading the glowing sun by day. TIME thrills me as a sensational airplane ride, with its gyrations, its quick twists and turns and glides-nose-dive, falling leaf, swallow flight, tail spin, loop-the-loop-would thrill and chill a landlubber. It impresses the reader (now the writer) as an extended straight-classical program of music-quite heavy for a mediocre audience. However, once a person is accustomed to TIME, he cannot help feel when reading other news periodicals that...
...discussed his flight at length as he dictated to a stenographer his special story published elsewhere in the New York Times...
...area of goodview were urged by bayonets to herd themselves a mile up the beach. Punctually at the appointed hour, a speck accompanied by lesser specks appeared in the air. . . . Commander Francesco de Pinedo had completed his 26,000-mile, four-continent (Europe, Africa, South America, North America) flight in the Santa Maria...
...port) a heavily loaded biplane floundered down upon a wheat field, smashed its landing gear. There was an ear-splitting explosion, followed by the crackle of flames. From each side of the plane leaped two burning figures. They rolled in the wheat, saving their lives. Thus, ended the brief flight of Capt. Georges Pelletier Doisy and his navigator, M. Gonin, who had set out to break, by flying 4,400 miles from Paris to India, the world's non-stop record (held by Flyers Chamberlin and Levine...
Byrd. At Roosevelt Field, Long Island, last week Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's triple-motored Fokker monoplane was poised for a flight to Paris, waiting only for contrary winds and an Atlantic fog to go away. George O. Noville, Bert Acosta and Berndt Balchen were eager to climb aboard. . . . Meanwhile, despatches from Paris said that Lieutenant Drouhin was ready to fly to New York, hoping to meet Commander Byrd and crew in mid-Atlantic...