Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flight Lieut. J. H. Boothman was given the honor of formally winning permanent possession of the Schneider Trophy. In a mosquito-like seaplane of blue & silver designated Super marine Rolls-Royce S-6B, he darted over the Solent at about 300 ft. altitude, taking wide turns at the corners of the course to guard against disqualification. His first two laps were the fastest, averaging 342.9 m. p. h. When he crossed the finish line and shot his plane skyward, to lose speed for a landing, his average time for the race...
...Manhattan last week a flock of 32 pigeons flew from their windowsill perches on the east side of lower Broadway toward St. Paul's Chapel on the west side. In mid-flight each pigeon closed its wings, dropped dead to the asphalt...
...Marcel Doret, with Mechanic Rene Mesmin, dragged themselves back to Paris. Their escape from death had been almost a miracle. Nevertheless they prevailed upon their backer, Perfumer Francois Coty, to give them another plane just like the wrecked one for a second try at a Paris-Tokyo nonstop flight. Such a flight, 6,032-mi., would retrieve for France the distance record which Boardman & Polando had just wrested away by flying 5.011 mi. from New York to Istanbul...
...famed Question Mark which Capt. Dieudonne ("Doudou") Coste flew to the U. S. last year. And there was "Doudou" himself, stocky, sleek-haired, grinning. No one would be more pleased to see Lebrix beaten in a race. The two men had been enemies ever since their spectacular co-flight around the world in 1927, at the end of which Lebrix bitterly declared that he ''was sick of being a valet to Coste." But Coste himself was not going to run in this race. Instead he had loaned his plane (also a gift of Perfumer Coty) to his friend...
...oath to defend the best interests of their country, come what may, but Chilean sailors, members of the second greatest fleet in South America, do not care. Early last week rumor ran through the battle fleet at Coquimbo that the Provisional Government of President Manuel Trucco (third since the flight of Dictator Ibanez), was preparing to cut the pay of all noncommissioned ratings as an economy move. Overnight mutiny flared...