Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this has been an unusual ice year around Antarctica. As far from the Ross Sea as the Weddell Sea, bad ice and turbulent weather have prevented Sir George Hubert Wilkins from making any extensive airplane explorations. All he could do was make three brief flights this year, and those from a ship. He had hoped that he could fly from his base at Deception Island to visit Admiral Byrd at Little America. On the far side of the continent, Sir Douglas Mawson's men were able to make only a brief flight from their ship, the Discovery. In the same...
Admiral Byrd, whose better equipped expedition did more thorough and extensive work, similarly named new localities?Marie Byrd Land (after his wife), Rockefeller Mts., Charles Bob Mts. His flight over the South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot...
History. The first flight recorded in Canada took place Aug. 2, 1909, at the village of Petawawa, Ont., about 80 miles west-northwest of Ottawa. Very little experimental flying followed. During the War the Royal Flying Corps had some military schools around Lake Ontario. They were insufficient. So many a Canadian trained by courtesy at Kelly Field in Texas, the U. S. Army school...
...Salamanca, Spain, a bull escaped from the bullring, ran down the street, climbed a flight of winding steps into the City Hall, gored the doorman, stamped on tables and chairs, charged into the street, gored two persons, was killed by a young man who climbed a lamp-post and fell on the bull's neck with a razor...
...pursuit tactics to the acid test under extremely rigorous weather conditions, and to afford a very broad opportunity for testing flying equipment in zero temperatures" the ist Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps long planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then...