Word: loops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...families, getting a "joyride" in reward for faithful service. On the ground, at Moscow Central Airdrome, 32 other shockworkers were waiting their turn to go up. Looking up, they saw the pilot of the tiny training plane stunting, in violation of orders. They saw him come out of a loop, crash head on into Maxim Gorki. With the little plane wedged in its wing between two motors, Maxim Gorki began falling. The pilots cut the switches, regained control, began gliding towards the airport...
...Chicago, Norma Thursen, chosen as Wisconsin's Typical Outdoor Girl at the National Boat and Sports Show, turned out to be a manicurist in a Chicago Loop barber shop...
...original Douglas transport-long used as an experimental "dog-ship"- prepared it for ocean flying experiments. Because of the additional weight, and because the Douglas is a skin-stressed airplane, the windows had to be replaced with duralumin sheeting. Conspicuous atop the cabin was a big loop aerial...
...jumped at 12,000 ft. After a sheer drop of 2,000 ft. he spread his arms and legs, felt the air sustain him. Like a spread-eagled bat he slanted steeply downward, getting the "feel" of his wings. Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop. Then he zoomed left & right, leveled off, dived, pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from his starting point. His flight had lasted 75 seconds...
...outstanding marksman like scoring by Winmill and Davis gave the galloping Easterners the hairbreadth edge required to defeat their enlisted opponents. Working beautifully together, Davis and Gerry put up such a formidable defense that their hosts were unable to find the necessary scoring loop-hole during the last three chukkers...