Word: maes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starter was the Lockheed monoplane Fort Worth, a white ship like the world-circling Winnie Mae but with a Wright motor of only 220 h. p. The pilots: Reginald L. Robbins, a Texas farmboy who taught himself to fly several years ago and in 1929 took the endurance record away from the Army's Question Mark (TIME, June 3, 1929); and Harry S. Jones, bachelor sportsman and promoter who had handled the refuelling plane for that endurance flight. Practiced in the tricks of refuelling in midair, Robbins & Jones decided not to try to force an overloaded plane into...
When the wheels of the big white Lock- heed Winnie Mae kicked a cloud of Roosevelt Field dust into the sunset one evening last week, they ended a story already read and reread by every newsreader in the land. Any urchin in the crowd of 10,000 that milled about the field could have told how the plane had left Solomon Beach near Nome two days before on the last laps of its round-the-world flight (TiME, July 6); how Navigator Harold Gatty had miraculously escaped serious injury when the propeller kicked him; how one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post...
...week after they flew the Atlantic to Germany and Denmark in the Bellanca Liberty, the names of Pilot Holger Hoiriis and Passenger Otto Hillig could scarcely be found in U. S. newspapers. Their momentary flame of fame had been blown out by the propeller blast of the glorious Winnie Mae (see col. i). Here & there little two-paragraph despatches told of their jaunt from Copenhagen back into Germany, where Mr. Hillig became king for a day to the 300 inhabitants of his native Steinbrucken, whence he emigrated to the U. S. 40 years ago. There he shook hands with those...
Thirteen hours after the Winnie Mae left Harbor Grace (see p. 32) another plane sped in its wake, a white Bellanca with red wings, the name Liberty and the crossed flags of Denmark and U. S. on its side. The Danish flag stood for youthful Pilot Holger Hoiriis's native land. Liberty is the name of the little town in New York's Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane...
...Liberty's first destination was Copenhagen, thence to Mr. Hillig's Steinbrucken. But the weather, none too good during the Winnie Mae's crossing, had improved not at all in the next 13 hours. Expanses of fog were relieved only by rain; cloud banks were broken only by a northeast gale. For 17 hours the flyers saw no water. Early in the morning Pilot Hoiriis spiralled the plane down through a rift in the clouds-and there was land! It must be England, dead on the path of Copenhagen. Any moment they expected to sight the English...