Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left behind at Langley Field, Va. when the GHQ Air Force flew to California, four of the Army's four-engined Boeing "flying fortresses" made a surprise Sunday flight of 1,700 mi., north to Augusta, Me., inland to Rochester, N. Y. and return, with empty bomb racks but full machine-gun crews and equipment...
...Valencia last week the six-month-old Government of greying, pugnacious Premier Francisco Largo Caballero fell. In the midst of the political crisis a flight of Rightist warplanes swept in from the open Mediterranean raining light bombs. They wrecked a streetcar, smashed windows, killed the cook and wounded the doorman of the British Embassy...
When Pilots Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill and John S. Lambie, on leave from Eastern Air Lines, flew to England fortnight ago in 21 hr., 3 min. (TIME, May 17), loose-spoken Radio Commentator Boake Carter snapped into his microphone: "Stunt flights across the ocean had their place at one time. Now Aviation has advanced beyond that point. Hopping to London to pick up some Coronation pictures and then fly back again may be a spectacular thing-but what does it contribute to the industry? Nothing as far as one can see. The country doesn't want that kind...
...ocean, Merrill & Lambie dropped down at Squantum, Mass., to check their gas supply, immediately dashed on to Floyd Bennett Field, which they reached 24 hr., 22 min. after leaving Southport. Their backer, Wall Street Operator Ben Smith who incorporated under the extraordinary title "Anglo-American Good-Will Coronation Flight Corp.," at once set about selling his exclusive set of pictures to U. S. magazines and newspapers at fat prices (see p. 17). To Flyers Merrill & Lambie will go 90% of the proceeds...
...Macon off Point Sur in 1935. Writing with the care and control of Stephen Crane's classic chronicle of disaster, The Open Boat, Lieut. Campbell tells a memorable tale. Without a wasted word, readers are made vividly aware of every disciplined detail of the Macon's last flight, from the rising siren to the final, gentle crash on the surface of the sea and the pyre of gasoline flames...