Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Lindbergh got down in Paris (1927), U. S. aviation stocks began to go up. Wright Aeronautical Corp., especially helped by his flight, rose to spectacular heights on predictions of tremendous profits. Fulfilling these prophecies, earnings for 1928 were $2,400,000 against $900,000 in 1927. Last week, Wright, now 90%-owned by Curtiss-Wright, published its report for 1929. Its earnings had tumbled into an airpocket as great as the one which engulfed all aviation securities, for instead of the $5,000,000 that had once been hoped for, the report again showed a measly $900,000. Last...
...heroes come down in flames. The author knows what he is writing about: he was there. Some of the plots: A be-monocled ground officer, never seen in the air, restores the morale of his training unit, which has just lost five pilots in crashes, by a solo flight of extreme skill and daring...
Died. Lieut.-Col. William George Barker, 35, second ranking Canadian ace (52 enemy planes officially credited out of 68 shot down); when his new plane crashed in a test flight at Rockliffe Airdrome, Ottawa...
Further excerpts: ". . . The old inventor had spread the tail of his frock coat like a sail and was in full flight toward the abyss of night. 'Do you mean to say,' shouted the saint as he caught up with him, 'that you actually don't want to enter heaven...
...Doudou") Costes of France went last week the Harmon Trophy, awarded (in Paris) by the International League of Aviators. The league was founded in 1926 by Clifford Harmon, to recognize and reward the persons who do each year's outstanding air work. Costes' 1929 work: non-stop flight from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, 4.910 mi. (farthest); Hanoi, Indo-China, to Paris, 4 days, 18 hrs. (fastest); closed circuit, 4.987 mi., around Marseilles (longest); with one ton cargo 2,048 mi. (farthest) for 18 hrs. i min. 20 sec. (longest). The 1927 award went to Charles Augustus Lindbergh...