Word: gromov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mikhail Gromov is a Soviet airplane pilot who holds both the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin. He is fiercely proud of his position in Red aviation. He was the regular pilot of the U. S. S. R.'s giant Maxim Gorky, probably owes his life to the fact that he was ill and another pilot was at the controls on the May day in 1935 when a stunting pursuit ship crashed into the Maxim Gorky, sent it down to destruction with a loss of 49 lives. Month ago when three of Gromov...
...have only one request." said Gromov. "Permit us to fly from Moscow to America over the North Pole...
Dictator Stalin questioned Gromov at length, conferred with his aides, finally told the three airmen to go ahead. At dawn one morning last week. Pilot Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrey Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Danilin climbed aboard their big, red-winged monoplane at Moscow's Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making...
Syria. Pilot Gromov and companions had covered a geographical distance o. 6,262 miles, not counting detours and backtracks. They were in the air for 62 hr. 17 min. A representative of the National Aeronautic Association shipped their sealed, clock-controlled barograph to Washington. A California fruit inspector fearful of Russian insect pests climbed into the plane, peeked and poked, confiscated a bag of fruit...