Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit, crammed his feet into oiled boots, strapped an oxygen mask to his face. Then he gunned the Stella engine of his Caproni biplane, shot into the sky, and climbed, climbed, climbed. Stella's customary limit was 24,600 ft. but she had been specially primed for this flight. Up, up she pulled the Caproni and Donati, into thin air and a temperature of -68° F; eight miles, 8½ miles, just 180 ft. short of nine. Then Pilot Donati pointed to earth, came down so fast he fainted when his wheels touched the field. His altitude mark...
...very young British naval officer is rescued from a gutter by a U. S. airman, taken on a night bombing flight. Next day he reciprocates by showing the airman what his tiny torpedo-boat...
...crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height, a whirling flight through an entire universe of indistinct, uncomprehending chaos...
...taking their degrees in June are eligible for enrollment in the course. Applicants from this district, who must be between 20 and 27 years of age and single, after passing the required physical examination, are sent to the Naval Reserve Aviation Base at Squantum for one month's flight training, consisting of basic instruction in acronauties. Those who satisfactorily fulfill the requirements of the preliminary training period will be detailed to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida, for the complete flying course...
...Jersey City, 67-year-old Mrs. Annie Kohlbecker sagged in her bed, overcome by a stroke. Six policemen came, struggled two and one-half hours to get her down one flight of stairs to an ambulance. She had not left her apartment since the day she arrived in a van 15 years before. Her weight...