Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School on August 8, 1930, and spent a month at the city Ground School, 119 W. 57th St., New York. On September 9, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, he took his first flying instruction, 1 hr. 45 min. or 1 hr. 55 min. with teacher; then made a solo flight. . . . J. C. GARLAND...
...chocolate-brown Julian the olive-skinned Emperor's command seemed unreasonable, sinister. How could he stunt successfully a ship he had never flown before? He decided that the lesser risk was to brave imperial wrath, go up for at least one practice flight...
...sentries at Cattete Palace were replaced by khaki-clad revoluntionaries. From Cattete Palace he loftily announced that the new government would wreak no political vengeances, punish only the criminal misuse of public funds. His formal assumption of office was in minor key. In civilian afternoon dress he descended a flight from his apartment on the palace third floor to a reception room where General Tasso Fragaso, head of the military junta, pronounced him in authority. He named a provisional cabinet. Other palace rooms were filled with officials and their wives. The populace waited along the avenues for his parade...
...following subjects, which are to be explained without the use of technical language, will be discussed. "The Theory of the Flight of an Airplane". "Methods Used to Obtain Stability of Control". "Construction of an Airplane". "Types of Airplanes". "Operation of the Engine", and "A Procedure to be Followed in the Take-off. Flying and Landing of an Airplane...
...Laurence Stallings and Charles MacArthur, has deliberately turned back to the old westerns as models in an attempt to reproduce the virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest of all plots: flight and pursuit. They have arranged this show from episodes taken from the life of Billy the Kid, famed oldtime western Robin Hood. The sheriff who idolizes the man he is chasing, the pure and lovely young girl who sticks to Billy through his dangers, the villains who are nasty simply...