Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he had been holding on his lap) at the feet of Postmaster William McCarthy. Seven years elapsed before regular airmail service was attempted in the U. S. with an experimental route between New York and Washington. But sentimentalists of aviation like to think of Earle Ovington's flight as the real beginning of U. S. airmail. A 20th birthday celebration was planned...
Meanwhile at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, nearest airport to Garden City, the 1911 flight was to be reenacted by Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones in a 1911 Curtiss "pusher," and by Dean Smith, crack airmail pilot and Antarctic flyer of the Byrd expedition, in a Pilgrim monoplane. One sack of mail was to be dropped by parachute near the Mineola postoffice, the remainder flown to Newark for transfer to regular airmail planes...
When it had nearly run out of excuses for refusing a Pacific flight permit to Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn, the Japanese Aviation Bureau protested last fortnight that the application had been before it for only two weeks. This was true, although the flyers' plea had made international conversation since their arrest six weeks ago for violating Japanese aviation laws (TIME, Aug. 17). Then the officials said they were afraid that the permit would be taken as a "precedent" by future offenders. Next, they suggested that the flyers wait until spring for the flight; but they would...
Promptly upon gaining their clearance Herndon & Pangborn filed entry for the $25,000 prize offered by the Tokyo Asahi for the first flight from Japan to the U. S. It was that newspaper, along with the rest of the Japanese press, which largely accounted for the flyers' difficulties with the authorities according to Managing Editor Kimpei Sheba of the Japan Times, writing this month in Editor & Publisher...
...rest of the press promptly followed. "In 48 hours the leading papers . . . had turned the heroes into criminals. . . . Each paper was now wishing the airmen on the other.'' Nichi-Nichi willingly released the flyers from their contract, but Asahi would not accept them as contestants until the flight permit had been granted...