Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambitious and startling of the three, was a colorful, ingenious mixture of secondhand religious fervor with syrup of ballet: it caused terrific applause. Saint Francis had the advantage of a score by famed self-exiled German "Kulturbolschewist" Paul Hindemith (TIME, March 14), which proved to be not only top-flight Hindemith but the finest contemporary ballet music Manhattanites had heard since the palmiest days of Igor Stravinsky. To its subtly suggestive, drypoint phrases, Saint Francis (Choreographer Massine), in a medieval setting, pursued his ideal of Poverty (paradoxically embodied by demure, eye-filling Ballerina Theilade), tamed a big bad wolf, ardently...
Chief purpose of any direction finder in transport flying is not alone to locate ground points but to help determine the plane's position in flight. After a ground station is tuned in on the ship's radio receiver in this new Sperry-RCA apparatus, a loop antenna suspended beneath the plane rotates automatically until it is at right angles to the source of the signal, registering the bearing on the dial. Where two or more such bearings intersect is approximately the plane's position...
...Orient has sold 250,000 copies in three years, has been translated into eight languages, and is still selling at the rate of 800 a month. The disarming candor of Mrs. Lindbergh's writing is probably the biggest reason for its popularity, since she combines technical discussions of flight with humdrum, housewifely confessions of her fears while flying. Listen! The Wind has the same engaging tone as North to the Orient, includes some vivid recollections of tense hours over the Atlantic which give a better picture of transoceanic flying than any account...
...American Export Air Lines' energetic, Pan American-trained Vice President James Murchie Eaton to announce a new transatlantic air partnership-American Export Air Lines and Italy's Ala Littoria. There to confirm this news was suave Colonel Carlo Pezzani, adviser to the Balbo flight five years ago, now Ala Littoria operations chief...
Died. Captain Herman Köhl, 50, German Wartime flier who in 1928, with Colonel James Fitzmaurice, Irish flier, and Baron Günther von Hünefeld, made the first East-West transatlantic flight; of kidney disease; in Munich...