Word: flights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arriving in Valencia, 190 miles from Madrid, the Radical Cabinet manifestoed that they had "sacrificed everything to efficiency." Their flight they declared "does not imply any abandonment of the defense of Madrid, but on the contrary gives greater impulse to the final struggle...
...defend the capital. He rushed from the phone to issue a blustering manifesto: "Courage! Our victory is certain. My mission is to defend Madrid at all costs. You must give up your lives before yielding another inch of ground!" Meanwhile Madrid syndicalist newspapers excitedly explained the Government's flight. If the Whites were able to catch and imprison its members, they argued, then foreign powers would have no choice but to recognize Generalissimo Franco as actual head of the Spanish State. Only this consideration, the journals exclaimed, could overcome the Cabinet's reluctance to abandon the capital, move...
...Captain James A. Mollison, Britain's No. 1 flyer, off on his fourth transatlantic flight. To explain his costume he smirked: "I don't want to lose any time getting to a party once I land at Croydon." Of late, Captain Mollison and his famed flying wife, Amy Johnson Mollison, have been noted more for the frequency of their parties than for the brilliance of their flying. Fortnight ago Amy made a bad landing in Kent, buried her plane's nose in the ground, broke her own nose on the dashboard. Mortified, she took the occasion...
Reason for Jim's flight was to "ferry" to England a special racer in which he hoped to enter the Johannesburg Air Race. A low-wing Bellanca with a Wasp Jr. engine, the plane was built as Colonel James Fitzmaurice's entry in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race to Australia, was disqualified on technicalities. Changes made for Captain Mollison delayed his departure from the U. S. until after the Johannesburg Race came to its sorry conclusion. He decided to fly across anyway to see if he could beat the time of the Johannesburg Race's winner...
...less than seven hours, was forced to stay there 24 hours by bad weather. Changing his crumpled dinner jacket to normal clothing, he finally shot away at dark into a snow storm. Thirteen hours, 17 minutes later, down he swooped at Croydon at 10 a. m., after a perfect flight which added several achievements to his list: 1) fastest eastbound crossing; 2) first private pilot to fly the Atlantic four times; 3) only pilot heading for London on a transatlantic flight to get there without a forced landing...