Word: hops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type, flying for a money prize in a transcontinental race to Spokane, Wash. Twenty-five started; that night pilots of twelve went to bed in Chicago; the first official stopping place. Thick, drizzly weather and brutally bumpy air over the Alleghenies stirred pilots to call it the most dangerous hop they had ever made. Over half of the planes came down short of the stopping point owing to weather, engine or equipment defects. No one was injured. Two planes landed ahead of the field at Glendive, Mont., the following day. On the afternoon of the third day 12,000 people...
...flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu (1,400 miles over the sea), had not arrived at Midway Islands. Neither Schlee nor Brock is a navigator. Aviation experts all over the world regarded the jump as certain suicide. Scores of protest-cables awaited the flyers in Tokyo. Said Mr. Brock: "We quit because the entire...
...largest city-manager city is Cleveland. Dr. Hatton wrote Cleve land's present charter, effective since 1924. Cleveland's city man ager is William Rowland Hop kins, portly, amiable, obedient, elder brother of famed Stage Producer Arthur Hopkins...
Third day. Leaving Munich before the world was awake, they landed at Bejanija airdrome, Belgrade, Jugoslavia, late in the morning. They jumped out to stretch, smoke cigarets, eat luncheon, refuel their bird; planned to hop off almost at once for Constantinople. Reports of strong winds and fog directly in their path over Sofia forced caution. Disappointed, they slept in Belgrade. Schlee praised their plane as "more faithful than a woman...
...come by airplane from Fairbanks - District Judge Cecil H. Clegg, accompanied by a prosecuting attorney, U. S. marshal and court stenographer. The Court also brought melons, cherries and many another pleasing novelty to Wiseman. Before returning to Fairbanks (in central Alaska on the Tanana river), the Court was to hop to Ruby, covering 1,600 miles...