Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip was the inaugural flight of The Mercury, first through transcontinental sleeplane. Flown by American Airlines once nightly in each direction with big new Douglas Sleeper transports, it makes the westbound journey in 17 hr., 41 min., the eastbound...
...ambling course of Stage Struck are traces of an interesting character, a dance director who hates girls as some captains hate the sea, a man with women smothering, mothering and berating him at work and at home until he runs away from it all. Unfortunately, in his flight he runs across Ruth Williams (Jeanne Madden) a stage-struck small towner. After that Stage Struck becomes another Warner Brothers apologia for backstage Cinderellas...
...they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards the flight there from Germany as child's play. The planes are catapulted so they might take off with a greater load than they could lift from the water...
...uneventfully buzzed the 2,390 miles to Pan American's Long Island base at Manhasset Bay. With four men aboard, the silver and yellow flying boat covered the route in 22 hours, using Pan American's radio as a guidepost. Shrugged Ruddy Captain Joachim Blankenburg: "A routine flight . . . an everyday event. I am glad to say, however, that we had about everything the ocean could offer in the way of weather...
...camera man almost an hour on the intensity of cosmic rays, and rocket ships. He held that in time we may be making journeys to the moon and the planets. He said that science was delayed by lack of funds and that we won't have another stratosphere flight for some time as it cost about $160,000 for a balloon. The photographer was referred to Jean Piccard who would only say that it costs "an enermous amount...