Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beechcraft was scheduled to run out of the bad weather after a hundred miles or so, but in the first hour of flight both radio and magnetic compasses went haywire. The plane, far off its course for The Pas, flew in a great parabola through icing conditions. Finally, Chief Petty Officer Jack Kastner came down on a strip of muskeg between two lakes. Not a man was scratched...
...mind to join up. He was 28 and married, and his draft board had classified him in 3-A. He went in voluntarily, became Private J. DiMaggio, U.S. Army Air Forces. In the Air Forces, he put in three years' service in the physical training program for flight cadets. He rose to staff sergeant. Joe had one hitch in Hawaii during 1944; otherwise he was not overseas. He had a chance to play in a couple of exhibition games, entertaining troops, but that was all the baseball he had in those three years...
...wreaths of mother-of-pearl orange blossoms (traditional in the Greek Orthodox service). There was one terrible moment when Francis was threatened with a perjury rap (he had picked up the wedding license in August and had listed himself as single). To cap everything, the newlyweds missed their scheduled flight to Rio. The nation's press had not been so chattery and dewy-eyed over a romance since the Rockefeller-Cinderella* story last February...
...Pinkerton men waited until Jockey Eddie Arcaro had ridden C. V. Whitney's filly, First Flight, down the six-furlong straightaway in a near-record 1:08 3/5. Then one of the agents stepped up to Baldy. "How would you like to talk to Mr. O'Grady at the Pinkerton Agency?" Blurted Baldy in hurt indignation: "Pinkerton? O'Grady? What am I? A bookmaker?" But he was not indignant enough to want to meet O'Grady-he vanished through the nearest gate...
...Force's F-86 jet fighter set a new world's record for level flight. Skimming the salt flats of California's Muroc Lake, Major Richard L. Johnson flew the North American plane with swept-back wings at an average of 670.981 m.p.h. in four passes, matching the record he had made unofficially in Cleveland two weeks earlier (TIME, Sept...