Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying boat was the huge Dornier DO-X which took off from Rio de Janeiro for Miami as proudly as if she had not been nine months on the way from Switzerland. Her sponsors set a leisurely schedule of nine days for the northward flight, but a crankcase broke near Para, Brazil, and there the laggard sat down again to await a new motor from Natal...
...Passage. There was small need for public guesswork when a red Bellanca seaplane popped up in Greenland one day last week. Although everyone was astonished that a plane could fly there from Detroit unnoticed, the news that Parker ("Shorty") Cramer was the pilot was a sure clue to the flight's objective. Since immediately after the War. Pilot Cramer, onetime flying partner of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, had been arguing for a subarctic air route to Europe via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark. Twice he attempted a trailblazer, twice failed: once with Pilot Bert Hassell in 1928; the following...
...Airplane Man/' The Lindberghs continued their northering flight to the Orient, making the supposedly hazardous stretch from Baker Lake 1,115 mi-to Aklavik, extreme northwest Canada, with a precision that silenced alarmists. Bad weather bound the flyers for three days and two nights at Aklavik, where they were lionized by the 35 white residents and the hundred or so Eskimos (to whom Col. Lindbergh was "Big Airplane Man"). When the fog cleared along the Arctic coast the Lindberghs flew on to icebound Point Barrow, Alaska, to the indescribable delight of the residents who had received neither visitors...
...Akron, Mr. Litchfield enjoys saying, his dislike of a landsman's life "forced him up in the air." He made his first balloon flight in 1911 and as superintendent spurred his company into the business of making balloons. Yet he never lost his love of salt water. He makes an ocean voyage at least once a year, keeps a summer home at Plymouth, Mass. His spacious estate in Akron's smart West Hill section is named "Anchorage." The gate is flanked by two great anchors; the rooms are filled with many a marine trophy. But the weathervane...
Northern Passage. With "no official starting point and no finish," Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife set out upon a pleasure flight to the Orient. They said goodbyes at Washington, New York, and at the estate of Father-in-Law Morrow at North Haven, Me., where they left Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Jr. Then they turned their low-wing Lockheed-Sirius, with its gasoline-laden pontoons, north to Canada. The hop to Ottawa was simple, gave Co-Pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh opportunity to practice radio communication with the Pan-American Airways base near New York. West of Ottawa the pair...