Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bromley's Luck (cont.). In the fourth plane built for the purpose, Lieut. Harold Bromley & Navigator Harold Gatty finally took off last week from Samishiro Beach, Aomori Prefecture, Japan for a nonstop flight to Tacoma, Wash. Twenty-five hours later they were down again at Shiriyazaki, about 40 mi. from the starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust...
Their battle practically won, the flyers found little thrill in the flight down the coast until the outlines of Long Island crept over the horizon. Then came the full joy of triumph. They landed at Curtiss-Wright Airport, first to make the flight that had cost the lives of ten before them, beginning with their countrymen Charles Nungesser and François Coli. Among the first to congratulate Coste & Bellonte in the wild crowd of 10,000 that swept over the field and stormed their hangar refuge was Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Wright Whirlwind motor, without radio, flew eastward 3,610 mi. in 33 hr. 29 min. His fuel load was 425 gal., his average speed 107 m. p. h. An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza motor and a top speed close to 160 m. p. h. Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically...
...prominent U. S. airmen only one publicly questioned the value of the Coste flight. Said Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks: "It was a great display of nerve but a foolish thing to do. . . . Though it was magnificently courageous, flights across the ocean in landships prove nothing except nerve and luck. When one is made in a seaplane, then something will have been accomplished...
Hero v. Hero. In contrast to the obscurity that was Lindbergh's prior to May 1927, "Doudou" Coste was France's idol of the air long before he started his latest flight. By the same token, perhaps, France was not quite so delirious with astonished rejoicing over Coste's success as it had been upon Lindbergh's dramatic landing at Le Bourget. A veteran War flyer, 38 years old, with six world records in flying already to his credit, Coste had instilled some of his own confidence into his people. They knew and shared...