Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soaring Flight...
...made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing 60, he learned to fly a seaplane, patrolled Boston's harbor for the Naval Reserve, looking for German U-boats, spotted a whale. He also invented a mechanism by which airplanes could pick up objects while in flight. As an officer of Boston's Watch & Ward Society, he once went after a blackmail gang so strenuously that he was indicted for conspiracy but acquitted...
...Charles Kingsford-Smith took off from Lympne, Kent, in a Lockheed-Altair, Lady Southern Cross, to break the England-Australia record. He said it would be his last flight before settling down to aviation administration. Somewhere east of Allahabad, India, he disappeared. Eighteen months later, when he was almost forgotten, a wheel and a piece of undercarriage were found on the shore of tropical Aye Island, off the Burma coast. Photographs of the wheel were sent to Lockheed Aircraft Corp., makers of the plane. Last week Lockheed definitely identified the ship it came from as the Lady Southern Cross. Rangoon...
Seize the moment, apparently reasons the first competitor. His ship rises rockily, climbs in a gust of wind, scars off toward the Business School. After three and a half minutes, the judges announces that as it has disappeared from sight, its flight is officially at an end. Later in the afternoon the report flashes about that the missing ship is found in the tower of Dunster House...
This was the conclusion McFarland obtained after scientific observations and laboratory tests made on the crew of Pan-American Airways' "China Clipper" during a round-trip flight across the Pacific last summer...