Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military escort, hearing Capt. Emilio Carranza, goodwill flyer, back to his Mexican bride...
June 24: Lieut. Einar-Paal Lundborg, Swedish stunt flyer, lands airplane at Nobile's camp, rescues Chief Pilgrim Gen. Nobile, also the bitch-mascot Titina. But on a second flight to the camp, Lieut. Lundborg wrecks his plane, marooning himself with castaways...
Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, trans-Atlantic flyer, has often written poems and essays, most of which remain unpublished. Having completed his flight to the U. S. he wrote no autobiography but a play which will be produced at the end of this month, in Dresden. The play's name is Dread of Good Luck...
...body was taken to Washington, there to be buried beside that of another explorer in cold places, Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary. A Negro was sent out to dig the grave in Arlington National Cemetery; he related that while he was making this dusty place for a flyer to stay in, a tall man had come quietly to his side and watched him at his work. The Negro asked his name but the man, as mysterious as a spirit, said merely "I was his friend." The stranger borrowed the Negro's spade and stood with his feet planted...
Unheralded, unawaited, after a secret start from Berlin, the Bremen dropped from the sky above Dublin on March 26. Three head-erect Germans stepped from her cabin: Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian nobleman, owner of the plane; Capt. Hermann Koehl, stolid flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...