Word: hops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nordic Fraulein Rasche came to the U. S. to exhibit her able stunt flying, to fly back across the Atlantic. For many weeks, she had been haunting the flying fields, quarreling with her unnamed backers, posing for photographs. A green and red Bellanca was ready for her trans-Atlantic hop, yet not available until additional safety devices should be installed. Fraulein Rasche fretted, pouted for the press...
...spanning the roof of the world (TIME, April 30); they thought of Bert Hinkler, lone voyager in an incredibly tiny plane (TIME, March 5); they thought back to Sir Ross Smith, pioneer of Australian aviation, who had flown 11,500 miles from England to Australia in 1919. A short hop of 1,795 miles, and they, too, would bring new honors to "Aussie," land of aviators...
...blind you can't play games in which balls are used. You can't box, play hockey or lacrosse, pole vault, or fence. But you can do the broad jump, the hop, step, and jump, the standing high jump, and the shot put. You can also run races, though for that there has to be a special equipment and because this equipment is hard to fix up for long distances blind men usually only run sprints...
...last week's plane were four men: Capt. Charles F. Kingsford-Smith, commander, organizer; Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm, copilot; Capt. Harry W. Lyon, navigator ; James Warner, radio operator. They made the 2,400-mile hop from Oakland Airport, Calif., to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, in 27 hrs., 28 min.-having no trouble except that they thought they were going to run out of gasoline. Their plane, called the Southern Cross, is a Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors...
From Suva, the four fliers planned to hop 1,795 miles to Brisbane, Australia...