Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dayton, Ohio, 67-year-old Orville Wright, who with his late brother Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane (at Kitty Hawk, N. C., 1903), took a 30-minute ride on the DC-4, biggest U. S. commercial landplane; his first flight in ten years. Said he: "It was a wonderful and delightful experience...
...named Cheston Lee Eshleman. More piqued than panicked, he got an idea. He wanted to pay the Martians a return visit, stake out a refuge for "harmless people" during the next war. Secretly, he wrote to Britain for maps and other information that would be useful in a transatlantic flight...
...Eshleman was unluckier than Douglas Corrigan, whose "wrong-way" flight to Ireland brought him Hollywood riches, luckier than Fliers Thomas Smith, Charles Backman, whose unauthorized transatlantic flights this spring in bantam, low-powered planes carried them into limbo...
Died. Raymond Orteig, 69, restaurateur and airmen's angel; after long illness; in Manhattan. Stirred by Alcock & Brown's transatlantic flight (1919), he posted a $25,000 purse for the first non-stop New York-Paris flight. Six fliers lost their lives before Charles A. Lindbergh...
...smiling Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia set his racing plane down fast but safely at Floyd Bennett Field three weeks ago, his friends, relatives and admirers waiting there cheered him wildly. They were glad because their Pancho had set a new non-stop record for the Mexico City-New York City flight. And they were glad for another reason. Pancho's five-year-old plane had a bad history of forced landings and unfinished races, was supposed to be jinxed. Pancho had flouted the jinx...