Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applicants for private pilot's licenses and student permits have been rejected because their eyesight was below this requirement:". . . at least 20/50 in each eye without correction, which can be corrected approximately to normal [20/20]* by goggle lenses. . . ." Glasses were forbidden both during tests and in flight. The rule had the effect of limiting potential private flyers to 40% of the population up to middle...
Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, who has a knack of getting small airplanes into extraordinary places, took a Puss Moth out of North Beach, L. I. one afternoon last week, set it down on the polo grounds of Kingston, Jamaica next morning. The 1,800-mi. flight was the first nonstop from New York, and Pilot Hinkler's was the first land plane to touch Jamaican soil, previous visitors having been amphibians or seaplanes...
Publicity-wise Major Doolittle had made his first stop at Washington so the flight could be the first to link all three North American capitals in a single day. That visit cost him 40 min. flying time while he hunted in vain for fog-bound Bolling Field, finally put down on Washington-Hoover Airport. He stopped for fuel twice again, at Birmingham and Corpus Christi, Tex. The whole day's 2,500-mi. flight he described as "uninteresting" save for the thrill of landing his high speed plane in the rarefied atmosphere of Mexico City...
...Rome has never been violated by anti-Fascist planes. I shall be the first, I said to myself. . . . My death, however undesired by me personally who have so many things to do, could but add to the success of my flight. All danger lies in my return flight. I shall not die before I have delivered my 400,000 leaflets and then they will be all the better recommended...
...same buoyant spirit of vigorous enthusiasm which enabled him to put up such a flight for life, that made him succeed, and gave him so many friends...