Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amused to read on p. 28 of your April 10 issue about the airplane flight over Mt. Everest. You published the picture of the Maharaja of Nepal and mention how this "wily Mongol above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head." This is a picture of the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shem Shur Jang Bahada Rana who died some five years ago. It is hard to understand how your reporter got into communication with him since his ashes have long been scattered on the water of the Holy River...
...bank, poked the bodies, then strolled off. The victims were Abilio and Ramiro Valdes Daussa, sons of Treasury Paymaster Francisco Valdes Leon. Their crime was hiding explosives in their home. Letting the Negroes shoot them down was perfectly legal under Cuba's ingenious ley de fuga (law of flight) which allows police -including the Porra-to kill prisoners "attempting to escape." Reports quickly circulated that Father Valdes Leon had committed suicide in his cell. This was denied by Prison Supervisor Ambrosio Diaz Galup...
...Speed: Flight-Lieut. George Stain-forth; 407 m.p.h. in seaplane (Great Britain...
Distance (straight line) : Squadron Leader C. B. Gayford and Flight-Lieut. G. E. Nicholetts; 5.126 mi. in landplane (Great Britain...
...Station at Lakehurst, N. J., floated silently and moodily into a cheerless sky. One after another the eight engines were started. Then Commander Frank C. McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared to the 81-hr. Canal Zone flight from which the Akron had last month returned. Only distinction was the presence aboard...