Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wreckage, interviewed eyewitnesses and searched the country round about for an explanation of the crash. They soon found a part of the answer. A quarter of a mile from the crash they found pieces of the plane's tail surfaces. Almost certainly they had been torn off in flight. What had shorn them off? CAB inspectors were not yet ready to say at week's end. Many an airplane pilot guessed that a propeller had failed, that a blade had hurtled back and cut into the tail surfaces. This theory had to be discarded when...
...black line-squall loomed in the northwest and lightning flared from cloud to cloud as United Airlines Cleveland-bound Flight 521, 44 passengers, four crew, trundled away from the LaGuardia Field ramp on the eve of Memorial Day. As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways-No. 13 or No. 18.* He picked the shortest, No. 18; it was only 3,533 feet long but it pointed directly into the brisk, 18 m.p.h. south wind...
However, I don't know what the conditions are now under the Bolshevik occupation. There are rumors that the beaches are declared prohibited military zones, in order to eliminate flight by the Baltic Sea. Even fishing boats are watched carefully by escorting speedboats supplied during the war to the Bolsheviks under Lend-Lease. I don't think that at present there is any bathing at the Baltic Riviera, drenched with blood. Who could enjoy...
...Yorkers who had never seen a real bombing raid were curious but not much impressed. More than anything else, the demonstration recalled a pre-World War II day in 1933, when a mass flight of obsolescent planes of all sizes-the nation's entire air strength at the time-was also considered quite a thing. The 135 Superfortresses were virtually the entire effective heavy bomber strength of the Strategic Air Command...
...years after its original release Samuel Goldwyn's personal prize package looks pretty much the same: it is still elegant extravaganza bursting with top-flight specialty entertainment. The film has a superstructure of Gershwin music (last score before the composer's death); it has as well the minty savor of screen spectacles in the Thirties which sticky current jobs somehow cannot boast...