Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From St. John, N. B. to Armonk, N.Y. flew Clarence Duncan Chamberlin. Strapped to a stretcher in the cabin was his friend and pupil Ruth Nichols whose back was injured in the crash that ended her attempt of a transatlantic flight (TIME, June 29). Prior to fetching Miss Nichols, Flyer Chamberlin had taken his Crescent monoplane to Floyd Bennett Airport, New York City, hung out a sign coaxing joy-hoppers to "fly with a pilot who flew the Atlantic," promising an autograph on every ticket. Immediately Roosevelt Flying Corp. hired Roger Q. Williams, just released from "alimony" jail, made...
...Post, still deaf from the roar of the motor, sprawled on a divan and let Gatty do the answering. What percentage of time was spent in the air? Gatty did not know. A newsman told him it was about 52%. Did they drink anything to keep awake on the flight? No. Post touches neither coffee nor tobacco. Doesn't he drink Choctaw beer in Oklahoma? He might drink more if they made it better. Did they sense the guidance and protection of some superior being? Here one of the reporters suggested that they all pool their wits...
Soon after the end of the flight, the business of making the flyers official heroes and their families great personages was in full swing. They were paraded, be-medalled, feted, photographed within an inch of their lives. (They had engaged as publicity counsel the firm of Bruno & Blythe.) Their wives were included at many of the functions, including the luncheon given by Mayor Walker, where Arthur Brisbane quoted Paul Block as saying: "It must have been hard to fly away from either of those two ladies." Also there was Col. Lindbergh ("Only one Christopher Columbus, only one Lindbergh."?Brisbane...
...York Col. & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh received permission to fly over Soviet territory on their proposed flight to the Orient, arranged for fuel caches, tested their plane remodeled for the trip...
Next day Hoiriis & Hillig flew back to Denmark for a reception at the pilot's birthplace, Braband. But the important city of Aarhus only three miles away, capital of the county, disdained to take official notice of their visit. The flight, said Burgomaster Jacob Jensen, was "haphazard luck." Had the flyers not named Copenhagen as their destination? And had they not floundered about over Spain and France before getting their bearings? So what if they had flown across the Atlantic Ocean safely? Many another has done the same. That is nothing nowadays...