Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...created, to make final meticulous adjustments. In "sky forward" (crow's nest) of the Lexington, in rumpled grey suit and floppy hat, the Navy's prime War ace, Lieut. David Sinton Ingalls, now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, squinted down upon the scene, watching the flight officers' red flag on the bridge below. When a white flag appeared, their show would begin...
...distant "Sara,"† like a bee leaving a log, a little thing crept to the bow and took flight, climbing rapidly and straight away over the sea. Another bee followed, then another, another. On the Lexington's flight deck, the concatenation of motors was heightened by one motor opened almost to its limit. Up the clean wood deck, between the broad yellow guide lines, darted the first of the Lexington's little broad-winged, single-seated biplane fighters, light blue below, yellow on top, with thunder-bolting eagles on its sides. Away it shot over the concave precipice...
Subsidies range from 8,000 francs (about $315) for land planes of any type, to 34,000 francs ($1,330) for three-place seaplanes. Other subsidies are offered for engines between 40 and 100 h. p., and for hours of flight...
...Equator bore down like tons of added ballast. But the Graf Zeppelin plowed steadily along her new trade route to Brazil, landed at Pernambuco after 62 hours. The time from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro was six and a half days. Besides being her sixth Atlantic crossing the flight was a two-point triumph for the Graf: 1) proving the dirigible equal to tropical weather; 2) making Latin-America "Zep-minded...
...Second award is the Boeing Master Mechanic course, consisting of nine months of instruction. The third award is the Boeing Master Pilot Ground School course, with nine months of instruction; and the fourth award is the Boeing Private Pilot course, requiring from two to four months of ground and flight instruction...