Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first half year of operation of the club plane has been an unqualified success, both aeronautically and financially and the club has never been compelled to go outside its own membership for the funds with which to carry on its fight activities. With the assistance of dues and flight fees it has paid a quarter of the purchase price of its Travel Air plane...
...Plane. A 27-year-old engineer, Donald Hall, designed the Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. It was built in 60 days at San Diego, Calif. It was christened in St. Louis while Captain Lindbergh was pausing in his flight across the continent (TIME, May 23). The fact that it is equipped with a 200-horsepower Wright whirlwind motor, caused Wright Aeronautical Corp. stock, usually inactive, to jump from 29¾ to 34⅜, with the news of Captain Lindbergh's progress...
...Reward. Not only did Captain Lindbergh win the $25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman, for the first New York-Paris non-stop flight, but he established for himself the immemorial right of extracting dollars from the hero-gaping U. S. public by appearing on the vaudeville stage, in the cinema, etc. A money-minded New York Herald Tribune writer figured out that Captain Lindbergh, as a professional hero, could (if he chose) earn $1,000,000 in one year in the following manner...
Anthony H. G. Fokker, upon seeing the monoplane America, which he designed and built for transatlantic flight, brought out of its hangar in a bright new coat of paint, threw up his hands and cried: "What! I spend all my time trying to take weight off the machine and they put on 40 Ib. of paint! Terrible! Terrible...
...confidence in aviation and the lust for adventure created by Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh's flight, led airmen to predict a doubling in U. S. flying activity in 1927 and 1928. In the few days following the news of Captain Lindbergh's arrival in Paris, aviation schools throughout the U. S. reported a host of new applicants who wanted to be taught the art of flying. Barnstorming pilots noted a significant increase in the number of people who were willing to pay $3 and $5 for a few minutes' ride. One editorial writer said: "America is flying...