Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopes of reaching the unprecedented altitude of 15 miles in next summer's National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight were expressed last night by Albert W. Stevens, lecturer on Aerophotography and captain in the United States Army Air Corps, in an illustrated lecture before an audience of 200 persons...
...those who take their flying straight, Paramount's "Wings in the Dark," showing at the Met, will be a disappointment. Unlike "Night Flight," the last airplane picture that was worth the celluloid it was printed on, "Wings in the Dark" is filled with a great many technical inaccuracies...
...When an airmail letter from him was held up, the President had a copy sent by wirephoto to reach Amelia Earhart at a banquet given in Oakland, Calif., in honor of her Hawaiian flight. The flight, according to the San Francisco News, was a Hawaiian publicity stunt for which Miss Earhart was paid $10,000. Said the President's twice-sent letter: "You have scored again...
Said Mrs. Doolittle: ''The most unpleasant flight I ever had." Ace Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker is vice president of TWA and general manager of Eastern Air Lines. As such, he usually goes along on record-breaking inter-city runs by the companies' planes to help make publicity. Last week he started out on what was to be a dawn-to-dusk round-trip flight from New Orleans to New York, inaugurating Eastern Air Lines' 9-hour service between the two cities. The Rickenbacker plane zipped from New Orleans to New York...
...oldtime mail pilot is TWA's youngish Harry C. ("Skippy") Taylor. His was the fastest transport flight of the week. With 14 passengers in a TWA Douglas he rode a 60-mi. tailwind from Chicago to Newark (743 mi.) in 2 hr. 54 min., averaged better than four miles a minute...