Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly peaceable last week. For weeks past two Moscow military factories have devoted their energies not to engines of death but to a colossal 25,000-cubic-meter gas bag. The balloon and its aluminum gondola was finished last week, only waiting good weather to attempt a stratosphere flight...
Stunts. Speedster Hawks's flight gave the Air Races audience something to think about, but most of the sensations in store for them were visceral rather than cerebral. Lieutenant Tito Falconi, young Ital- ian stunter who last fortnight broke his own world's endurance record for upside-down flying with a 3 hr., 8 min. flight from St. Louis to Chicago, did a topsy-turvy climbing bank and "dead stick'' dive. Major Ernst Udet, famed German War ace, sent his Flamingo teetering crazily across the field, on the third try neatly snatched a handkerchief...
...largest of any daily in the world -and Ben Day could boast that New Yorkers read the Sun by day, studied the moon by night. Nine years later the Sun fostered another fable-the balloon hoax. It was Edgar Allan Poe's account of a supposed airship flight from England to South Carolina. The hoax lasted for only a day, the Sun itself explaining that the "astounding intelligence" was erroneous...
...three verdicts added close to the whole truth. It was eight years since the Marchese de Pinedo, rich, young and brashly daring, was the toast of Italy for his 35,000-mi. flight to Australia, Japan, India and return; six years since his circling of Africa, South America and the U. S. Mussolini made him a General and Chief of Staff for Air under Italo Balbo...
...Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely to the embassy in Buenos Aires. There he played polo and hunted. He kept his peace with good grace until this year-the year of Balbo's triumphal armada flight-he appeared in New York intent to the point of desperation on flying farther than any man had flown, all alone...