Word: lockhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made their observation? while flying their Lockhead-Vega plane in a 1,200-mile sally from their base on Deception Island, situated between Antarctica and Cape Horn...
There were many races, the most important of which was the non-stop transcontinental derby. Col. Arthur Goebel in a Wasp-motored Lockhead-Vega Yankee Doodle was the first to arrive. But he won no prize because he had stopped once to refuel. Even so his time from New York to Los Angeles was a record; 23 hours, 50 minutes. The other entrants in the race had been forced down. Col. William Thaw seriously injured, had said before starting on the race: "I'm fat, I'll bounce...
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