Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widow of Dudley Coats, daughter of Mrs. Willie James who was an illustrious hostess in London and a close friend of Edward VII. The present Mrs. Marshall (Evelyn Marshall) Field III is in Reno, expecting a divorce early in August. Last week, Capt. Field made his first solo airplane flight, at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; flew 20 minutes, landed four times...
...crash most dreaded by airmail men is the one that ends in fire. Unless the pilot can extricate the bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters...
Bertram Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta, co-pilot on the Byrd trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, was released from jail at Mineola (L. I.) after serving five and one-half months of a six-month term for non-support of his wife and two children, who met him at the gates, welcomed him, took him home...
...Flagpole Sitting." Capt. John O. Donaldson and Pilot Ole Oleson planned a flight to test the endurance of planes, not of pilots. At Roosevelt Field, L. I. a Stinson monoplane would be flown by relays of relief pilots sent aboard at intervals by a rope ladder dropped from the refuelling plane. The pilot being relieved would drop to earth with a parachute. Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said...
Journey's End. In Santa Maria, Calif, last week, Major Charles Kingsford-Smith presented his world-girdling monoplane Southern Cross to Capt. G. Allan Hancock, wealthy banker and oil operator, who had bought and loaned the plane to him for the California-Australia flight of 1928. When the Southern Cross landed safely in Australia, Capt. Hancock cabled Major Kingsford-Smith full title to it. Capt. Hancock, who took up flying as a result of his association with the Southern Cross crew, later gave Santa Maria an airport, established there an air college...