Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civil aircraft flew 68,669,928 mi. in the six months, a gain of 12,468,590 mi. over the same period in 1929. There were 930 accidents, one for every 73,839 mi. of flight. In 1929 (spring) there was an accident every 72,612 mi. Schedule transport planes suffered six fatal accidents in 16,902,728 mi. flown?one per 2,817,121 mi., compared with one fatality every 1,022,871 mi. for the same period...
...relief earlier references to Lord Thomson's apparent haste. Attorney General Sir William Allen Jowitt had cor respondence to show that the air minister was chafing to start by late September, be back by Oct. 16. One letter was quoted: "I must insist on the program for the India flight being adhered to, as I have made my plans accordingly." Observed Sir William...
...feel for himself how easy and pleasant it is? Last week Assistant Secretary of Commerce Clarence Marshall Young conceded the manufacturers' point, rescinded the rule which had forbidden all but licensed pilots and holders of student permits from taking the stick of licensed planes in flight. Hereafter a transport pilot regularly employed by an accredited manufacturer, dealer or school may let a prospective buyer or student handle the controls, provided no money is collected for the demonstration flight...
When the War came Yeats-Brown was on leave at home. He was unable to rejoin his regiment but served six months with the cavalry on the Western Front before he was transferred as an observer to the Mesopotamian Flight of the Royal Flying Corps. Once his pilot had to make a forced landing; he was captured by Arabs, turned over to the Turks, who held him prisoner two years. He escaped, lived in Constantinople a while disguised as a German governess, as a German mechanic, was recaptured, escaped again only a fortnight before the Armistice. After...
Buffalo Child. Muscular, handsome young Buffalo Child Long Lance (Einiu Pokau Inno Stoan), Blackfoot Indian chief, hero of The Silent Enemy (cinema), completed 5 hr. 20 min. of dual flight instruction at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. Instructors, pilots, students stood with upturned chins one day last fortnight watching Long Lance make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall...