Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lead of the five other planes shot Turner, ''polishing pylons" with his usual wizardry. For nine out of the ten laps he apparently had the race won. Suddenly, near the finish, the crowd was stunned to see a thick black plume of smoke belch from his Hornet motor as an oil-line clogged. Out of the race dropped Favorite Turner, managing to land safely in his oil-spattered racer. Into the lead went steady Mister Mulligan to win in the slow time of 220.1 m.p.h. on the first occasion that one plane had ever captured both Bendix...
...every company had strict orders to tell all men under their command exactly what orders were being executed and why, and during every pause in the fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift advance and its subsequent loss because of: i) failure of communica tions, 2) an attack of real ptomaine poisoning which completely...
...eight men on an atoll in mid-Pacific, the approaching drone of four Hornet motors fortnight ago was the climax of three months' arduous efforts. While hundreds of frigate birds and terns screamed in dismay, they hopped up & down on the beach, waving gleefully...
...Test Pilot Boris Sergievsky opened the throttles for the initial flight, the ship surged forward under the drive of its two 750-h.p. Hornet engines. Suddenly those on shore burst into a torrent of excited Russian. One of the motors had quit, owing to a defective fuel pump. Capt. Sergievsky, unaware of the engine failure, kept The throttles open. The 543 got up "on the step," lumbered into the air on one motor after 15 sec. At 200 ft. Mechanic Albert Morvay got the ailing engine working again by "wabbling" fuel with a hand pump. Capt. Sergievsky brought the ship...
Spray foamed from the silver hull as it gathered speed under the surge of its four Hornet motors. After a half-minute run, the 21-ton Pan American Clipper lifted easily from the waters of San Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this...