Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the streets of London stirred a cold fuliginous fog. The King's coach, drawn by eight superb horses, moved gingerly. The Beefeaters from the Tower of London who marched beside it seemed like ghosts who now and again disappeared into a slowly rolling gust of fog. Ghostly, too, was the scant crowd which peered at the nearly invisible Royal procession...
Eventually he gained headway towards the Bay of Biscay. There again a storm bumped him. But he shouldered through it, over-fog-clouded Nantes, over hazy Tours, over Lake Constance. The Hallowe'en moon watched him. And as the sun rose for All Saints' Day he dipped his Graf Zeppelin's nose down towards the howling German crowds and his hangars at Friedrichshafen...
When they left Long Island, the fliers took with them 525 gallons of gas. Half an hour longer in the air and they would have had none left. Weather conditions were consistently bad. Flying over the Pennsylvanian Appalachians they encountered what Tucker calls the worst fog he has ever seen. For 1,000 miles they fought a head wind, which retarded their average speed some 20 miles an hour...
Electric hydrophone beacons are being used now where formerly light-houses and bells were the only guides. Fog and rough weather make the older methods unreliable or utterly useless, while the electric vibrations transmitted through the sea, and registered by the hydrophone, are not seriously affected by weather conditions...
...Ronne, manager of the Buffalo Airport. On their engagement pad, last week, was the item: "Take Lindbergh's orange-colored Falcon from Buffalo to Curtiss Field, Long Island." It was, ostensibly, a simple and pleasant item in their business. But they were killed while performing it. A fog, a thickly-wooded hillside near Milford, Pa., a crash into the treetops, a completely demolished Falcon and two burned bodies told the story, crudely...