Word: ismailia
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...first time raided Port Said, north terminus of the Suez Canal (and said they cut the Egypt-Palestine rail-road where it crosses the Canal near Ismailia...
...flyer who thus narrowly avoided death was Squadron Leader F. D. R. ("Ferdie") Swain, 33-year-old Royal Air Force test pilot. A voluble, keen-faced bachelor, he entered the R. A. F. in 1922, served in Ismailia, Heliopolis, commanded a test flight in Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying...
...from Cardington to Montreal and back last autumn, will be maintained as a sort of flying laboratory (like the U. S. Los Angeles), but it will not be reconstructed or lengthened for additional lifting power as was its sister R-101. The mooring masts at Montreal, Karachi (India) and Ismailia (Egypt), erected as part of Britain's ambitious scheme to link the far-flung parts of the Empire by air, will be kept in repair. Annual cost of the new retrenched program is estimated...
...long), both huger than the Graf Zeppelin. Purpose of construction was to prove that airships would be useful to travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished Englishmen, troubled by the spending of $10,000,000 on the ships and their accessories, were...