Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jump-Off. On the tenth day, trial balloon observation showed that at 33,000 ft. the wind velocity had dropped, although dust haze hung high in the Himalayas. The expedition's leader, Air-Commodore Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes, who had led the party on its hazardous 25-day flight out from England and who won a bar to his D. S. O. in 1918 by bombing the Zeebrugge Lock gates from a nonchalant altitude of 200 ft., took the Puss Moth up once more at 5:30 a. m. for observation...
Into the pilot's cockpit of the Westland's sistership went Flight Lieutenant D. F. Mclntyre, brother officer of Lord Clydesdale in the City of Glasgow's auxiliary air squadron. His observer was S. R. Bonnett, chief cinematographer of the expedition...
...cockpit and take still photographs of the icy summit. Instead he was barely able to stop the leak in his oxygen pipe with his handkerchief as both planes slid down the long descent from their objective. It was later found that neither cinema machine had functioned continuously throughout the flight. Only other mishap reported, when the two planes, having traveled 320 mi., alighted at Purnea exactly three hours after the flight began, was that Lieut. Mclntyre's electrically heated gloves had performed too efficiently, blistering the aviator's hands. All hands were delighted with a rough rag jolly...
...make the flight, Lord Clydesdale had to get permission from his Scotch constituency. Aged 30, two years ago he won a seat in the Commons. At Oxford (where he did not belong to the Pacifistic Union) few expected Lord Clydesdale to become much of a politico. Everyone, however, knew he could fight. In 1924 he won the Scotch amateur middleweight title. He had gone to Glasgow with his friend, classmate and mentor, Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (Fighting for Fun), to enter the championship bout. The reigning champion, a coal miner, gave His Lordship a terrible drubbing, broke...
...Everest expedition had permission for only one try at the peak. The Maharajah of Nepal, a wily Mongol, above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head. To his devious mind the proposed air-mapping sounded like preparation for an invasion...