Word: hourse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within a few hours a royal proclamation was printed and posted up extensively in Belgrade: "To MY DEAR PEOPLE:
Endless circles and arcs, endless glissandos of flight. Over Southern California droned the Fokker cabin monoplane Question Mark. At the dawn of the new year five U. S. Army flyers had swooped into the air from Los Angeles. Their resolve was to shatter all existing records for endurance flights, to...
And so it flew, now a hovering buzzard, now a darking bee until the seventh day. On the seventh day it rested. The Question Mark ended its airy sentence. After 150 hours. 40 minutes, 16 seconds aloft, the plane came to earth. Out of the fuselage stumbled the crew, shouting...
*U. S.: 37 hours, 15 min., 14 sec.; by Lieutenants Lowell Smith & J. P. Richter at San Diego, 1923.
**Sustained flight (lighter-than-air machines); by the French dirigible Dixmudc. 118 hours, 41