Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hills last week had very little to add. A leg injury forced Defending Champion Wilmer Allison to withdraw his entry. The rest of the seeded players included Jacques Brugnon and three young Frenchmen performing in the U. S. for the first time to gain experience; that coterie of second-flight U. S. stars, like Sidney Wood, Bryan Grant, Frank Parker and Gregory Mangin, who long ago made it clear that their playing would never justify their potentialities; and the latest schoolboy sensation from California, 18-year-old Robert Riggs of Los Angeles, who has won eight major tournaments this season...
Deciding on a transatlantic flight. Crooner Richman had a special Wright Cyclone engine installed in his smgle-motored $95,000 Vultee monoplane Lady Peace. For a co-pilot he picked Eastern Air Lines' No. 1 Flyer Henry Tindall ("Dick"') Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually...
...Bendix, the Thompson was left to a parcel of minor U. S. racers, one foreign ace-France's huge, 31-year-old Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice almost killed himself in crashes. Last week, flying a tiny blue Caudron-Renault in which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked off with the preliminary Greve Trophy Race. This victory...
Ostensibly to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's transatlantic flight on May 21, 1927, actually to draw crowds to next year's Paris International Exposition, French Air Minister Pierre Cot last week announced plans for an international air derby from New York to Paris on May 21, 1937.* Though details are still unsettled, the race will be open to all comers, will be for a first prize of 1,000,000 francs ($65,000). This promptly inspired the newspaper Intransigeant to offer an aeronautical Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic, declaim: "France desires that Colonel...
...extraordinary piece of writing, The Moon's No Fool is a bold, imaginative flight, but one that seems headed in all directions at once. No reader can be sure his analysis of Mr. Matthews' meaning is the right one, that Mr. Matthews himself was always certain how his myth-sermon would...