Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other pilots have outstripped sound in other ways. North American Aviation Inc. stated flatly last week that its jet fighter XF-86 has often exceeded the speed of sound in power dives. A later, more powerful model, the F-86A, may be able to do the same in level flight...
Almost every 15 minutes from dawn to dusk a DC-3 takes off from or lands at Honolulu Airport for a flight around the islands. Businessmen fly from one island to another for lunch; housewives fly into Honolulu to shop; planters commute by air between farms and cities. Islanders call Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. the "trolley line." Next week Hawaiian Airlines, with two more DC-3s added to its fleet of eight, will step up its flights from...
...Flight Canceled. In Colorado Springs, Colo., farsighted police removed from a window ledge of the jail the hacksaw blades which farsighted juvenile delinquents had stashed there, before they were arrested...
...controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing. The crewmen come back from their simulated flight in a sweat that is not simulated...
...Court of St. James's; in a plane crash; near Privas, France. The Marquess, a captain in the Coldstream Guards, was killed in action 18 weeks after their marriage in 1944, four weeks after her brother, U.S. Navy Lieut. Joseph P. Jr., was killed on an operational flight...