Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps you prefer Bostonianism strictly modern. Then have you tried a "dollar hop" at the East Boston Airport? You can hop for fifty cents at another one, but most people would prefer to spend the extra half-dollar. Saturday afternoons the Army planes go up, and Sunday afternoons the others, and there are always passenger planes coming in or taking off. Sunday afternoons during the summer there is sometimes a special program, and in any case a flight, or even the sight of others trying it, is a certain cure for boredom...
...Angeles shop. The propeller snapped, sheared through a wire netting, knocked him unconscious. At a soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...
...Amsterdam (870 mi.), to Londonderry, Ireland (630 mi.), to Reykjavik, Iceland (930 mi.), southwest to Cartwright, Labrador (1,500 mi.), to Shediac, N. B. (800 mi.), to Montreal (500 mi.), to Chicago (870 mi.). Following'a three-day fete at the World's Fair the squadron will hop east to Port Washington, N. Y. on Long Island Sound. Unlike the South Atlantic flight, on which General Balbo left his planes with the Brazilian Government in barter for coffee, he will lead this squadron home again through the sky. The route, undetermined, may lie via the Azores...
...First Hop. Thousands of cautious lowans enjoyed their first air plane hop in The Register and Tribune autogiro, because it struck them as an airplane they could rely upon, precisely as they rely upon The Register and Tribune. It was sound psychology, a natural association of ideas...
...broke. Dizzy and nauseated from breathing gas fumes. Pilot Mattern set his ship down at the coal mining settlement of Belovo, so groggily that it cracked the stabilizer. He lost a day and a half there before mechanics, flown from Novosibirsk, completed repairs. For the treacherous 2,600-mi. hop from Khabarovsk across the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Bering Sea to Nome. Pilot Mattern steeled himself with plenty of rest...