Word: fog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five hours, they had been flying over France, lost in a fog that obscured land and the tips of the America's wings. Once, for a moment, they thought they saw rows of squat bath houses on a beach. Again, there seemed to appear a faint haze of light-perhaps it was Paris or the beacons at Le Bourget airport. Then the fog swallowed all. "When we got above the clouds," Commander Byrd later told the New York Times, "there were at times some terrible views. We would look hundreds of feet into fog valleys-dark ominous depths...
...gasoline-when suddenly at 3 a. m. they saw the sea-coast and the flicker of a lighthouse beacon beneath them. That was the moment when Commander Byrd scribbled: "We are going to land." It was safer to drop into the sea than to crash into unyielding, un known, fog-blanketed land, he decided...
...four men in a fog inflated their pneumatic tub, paddled 200 yards to the shore of the little fishing village of Ver-sur-Mer, where in 1588 one of the prides of the Spanish Armada had been shattered on the rocks. Lieutenant Noville twice returned to the America's wreck to save the first transatlantic air mail, a tiny Betsy Ross flag for President Gaston Doumergue of France, some of Commander Byrd's scientific data...
Byrd. At Roosevelt Field, Long Island, last week Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's triple-motored Fokker monoplane was poised for a flight to Paris, waiting only for contrary winds and an Atlantic fog to go away. George O. Noville, Bert Acosta and Berndt Balchen were eager to climb aboard. . . . Meanwhile, despatches from Paris said that Lieutenant Drouhin was ready to fly to New York, hoping to meet Commander Byrd and crew in mid-Atlantic...
Lieutenant Coste and Captain Rignot hopped off from Le Bourget (Paris airport) in a Brequet biplane last week, hoping to reach Tchita, Siberia, 4,435 miles away. But fog and rain forced them down at Tobolsk, Siberia, only 3,125 miles away...