Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radios with ranges up to 400 mi. were being installed on Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete. Old-type observation ships were being outfitted with artificial horizons, di rectional gyroscopes, new compasses and flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers in the Martin factory near Baltimore. . His inspection trip convinced General Foulois that the Army was now ready to -make a fresh -start with the airmail.-On his recommendation the War Department announced resumption of limited service on eight trunk routes. These...
General Johnson in his last speech tried to discourage the employers from standing on the issue. He failed. Now the A. F. of L. is going to fight it out, and judging by the word aching here from the automobile industry, the latter is ready for the flight, too. Other employers are interested in seeing a showdown. There will be some talk of a general strike in other industries...
...daredevil then wangled a flight in a National Guard plane. He jumped despite the profane imprecations of the pilot, dropped 1,000 ft. before pulling the ripcord, landed unhurt on the frozen Charles River, was arrested by police for leaving an airplane "for a feat of daring." First victim of the Massachusetts law which forbids any but emergency parachute jumps, he was given a three-month sentence which was later suspended...
...from Cheyenne, Wyo. flew an Army observation plane with Lieuts. Frank L. Howard and Arthur R. Kerwin Jr., on a practice mail flight to Salt Lake City. The ship circled the town once, headed west from the airport when the motor began spitting. Slanting downward the plane whipped through a high tension line, bored into the ground, burst into flame. Lieuts. Howard & Kerwin were cremated...
...Chicago Tribune, climbed into a ten-passenger American Airways plane, started back to his job. For fellow passengers he had a Manhattan advertising man and an Ohio sanitary engineer. Pilot Walter Hallgren had made the St. Louis-Chicago run for six years and was approaching his millionth flight mile. After the plane had bored 100 mi. into Illinois, thick, wet snow began to envelop it. The Chicago radio operator heard its pilot report: "Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings and tail." Hallgren did not hear Chicago order him to turn back to St. Louis...