Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blimps, helicopters, jet planes and big bombers flew over Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N.C. to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first flight. At the same time the original Wright airplane-which was recently brought to the U.S. after 20 years in London's Science Museum-was hung up beside Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
Subsonic Express. At Muroc (Calif.) Air Force Base, Northrop Aircraft, Inc. ran first flight tests on an odd-looking plane that seemed to have swallowed its tail. Called the X-4, it is a batshaped little (20 ft. long) craft with two jet engines and broad, backswept wings (see cut). No entry in the supersonic sweepstakes, the X-4 was designed in the belief that subsonic speeds will still be the practical concern of aviation for many years. It will be used for research at speeds of about 650 m.p.h...
...darkness before dawn things began to go wrong. On the flight engineer's board, instrument needles flickered away from their reassuring positions. An outboard engine began to lose oil; it flowed back over the wing like blood in the moonlight. The plane began to shudder; the far starboard engine died. Its feathered prop stood stark and motionless. The plane rumbled on uneasily, unevenly. The other starboard engine sputtered and died, and the craft began to lose altitude. Up forward, the radio operator methodically clicked out an SOS, giving his position. The white-faced passengers cinched themselves into life jackets...
...thrown off because the rafts had drifted so rapidly southwest after being spotted by the B17. The Privateer's pilot, about 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu, was all ready to turn back; he had gone on only because the navigator had asked for eight more minutes of flight on the same heading to save altering his flight plan...
...Zealand used to be full of flight-.ess birds, including the giant moa twelve feet tall. They had scrapped their flying apparatus because they didn't need it; there were few ground enemies to zoom away from. But when man (first the Maoris, then the whites) arrived in New Zealand, bringing along dogs, cats and rats, the flightless birds had a tough time. Some went the way of the dodo...