Word: hangar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field, carved out of the side of a hill on the Whitney place at Manhasset. L. I. Too heavy to ride his own steeplechasers in races, he rides to hounds, shoots, plays squash, flies his own cabin-plane, which was last year nearly destroyed by fire in its hangar at Roosevelt Field. The name of his plane- Pegasus-is the kind of gesture that is fully understandable only to horse people, people who find, as Jock Whitney does, a rich and serious importance in the thundering field, bunched at the start, narrowing to the first thorn fence at Aintree...
...time for him to start for his office in Washington. Up from the control car he climbed into the envelope, then walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre of its wing, threaded through the bottom rung of a metal trapeze. The plane's propeller was already turning...
...last cruises" or "last flights" of craft about to be taken out of service. They are supposed to be unlucky. The L. A. landed for the last time at 6:24 a. m. June 25. She was scheduled for a final flight June 27 but did not leave her hangar. Reason given: bad weather...
...Knowing that if a dirigible lifts them off the earth, it may well carry them up 2,000 ft, experienced ground men will drop the lines when pulled up 2 in., will never jump for a better purchase. Waiting at the Sunnyvale hangar, near San Francisco, was a Lakehurst-trained crew, shipped West to handle the Akron...
...house in a hangar, the giant flying boat DO-X has been high & dry on the beach at Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y., since August. Riggers have been busy scraping and painting the hull, re-doping the great wing. Mechanics have reconditioned the twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors, stepped them up 50 h. p. apiece. Last week Captain Friedrich Christiansen announced that DO-X would take off for the return flight to Europe via Newfoundland and the Azores about...