Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...briefly that few people could repeat their names, were nearly forgotten last week when a horrid rumor grew about their crash at Soldin, Germany, near the Polish border. Every one had accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. But a Lithuanian newspaper hinted that the airplane Lithuanica had been downed by a "death ray" aimed from German soil...
Clippers. Equipment means airplanes. The first two of six flying boats, larger than any aircraft heretofore constructed in the U. S., are now abuilding for Pan American. From the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, which will produce three of the boats, the first will emerge for flight tests this autumn. The Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore, builder of the other three, is expected to have one ready next summer. Both types of machines, known to Pan American as "clippers," are four-engined monoplanes. On Pan American's present routes they could carry 50 passengers & cargo. With mail only, they...
...evening after Wiley Post's homecoming, Floyd Bennett Field was thronged again. A Sunday crowd was there to see Britain's favorite flyers, brawny Capt. James Allan Mollison and his nervy wife, Amy Johnson Mollison. end a nonstop flight from Wales. Theirs was a fantastic venture. They intended to rest a few days in New York, then take off for Bagdad in one jump for a distance record of 6,000 mi. Then they would hop home to London, cash in enough on publicity to retire for life...
...course alone over the Atlantic last year (TIME, Aug. 29). steered a good course again. But it was a long, exhausting job. The Seafarer was built for distance, not for speed. When dusk fell a second time the Mollisons were sighted off Connecticut coast. They had made a splendid flight, against headwinds all the way. One hour more and they would land for a tremendous ovation...
...most people would prefer to spend the extra half-dollar. Saturday afternoons the Army planes go up, and Sunday afternoons the others, and there are always passenger planes coming in or taking off. Sunday afternoons during the summer there is sometimes a special program, and in any case a flight, or even the sight of others trying it, is a certain cure for boredom...