Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metal hawks that filled the city's canyons with the hammering roar of war. At the head of the formation in a Martin bomber, constantly in radio touch with all his following and ordering their every maneuver, rode Lieut. Commander Alfred E. Montgomery, in charge of the flight. Behind him came Martin torpedo planes, sturdy Vought Corsairs, Curtiss Seahawks, Boeing fighters...
...research division of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, has spent three years in developing a device by which the pilot may see his signals. Known as the visual radio range beacon, the invention won public notice last autumn when Lieut. James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle made his famed blind flight at Mitchel Field, L. I. (TIME...
Ladies' Endurance. Mile Lena Bernstein, 24, Russian emigree, took off from La Bourget airport on Thursday morning, descended Friday evening with a new ladies' endurance record of 35 hr. 46 min. 55 sec. sustained flight, surpassing by nearly ten hours the previous record (26 hr. 21 min. 32 sec. by Elinor Smith), falling 2 hr. 14 min. short of the men's record (last October; Vern Speich at Long Beach, Calif...
...Brice Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator on Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between New York and Newfoundland at the start of a trans-Atlantic flight (TIME...
Moussorgsky's Khovantchina Prelude and Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee by Sir Hamilton Harty and the Halle Orchestra of Manchester (Columbia, $2) - Superlative recording of the music of onetime roommates. Khovantchina, like Moussorgsky's Boris, is as Russian in character as Red Square in Moscow, its first scene. Rimsky's Bee is less important but better known by reason of its flashing imagery...