Word: mechanicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flight. Thus flew Roald Amundsen of Norway, Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S., Umberto Nobile of Italy, Lieutenants Hjalmar Rüser-Larsen, Emil Horgan, Oscal Omdal and Gustav Amundsen (nephew) of the Norwegian navy, Mechanician Natale Cecioni of Italy, Meteorologist Fenn Malmgren of Sweden, their eight aides and dog Titina, in the semirigid dirigible Norge...
...horses, went out of his control, skidded for 300 yards, shot sidewise over the saucer's edge, crashed an iron fence, nose-dived into the ground, righted, burst into flames. Resta was hurled headlong with terrific force against a fence-post, semi-decapitated, horribly mangled. His mechanician fell free, damaged but slightly. A few days before, Resta had called Brooklands "the easiest course in the world." After he won the U. S. championship in 1916, and six other big events the same year, Dario Resta had occupied a niche similar to those accorded Barney Oldfield, Ralph Mulford, Ralph...
Natives of Providence, R. I., craned at them. Over Woonsocket one of the escorts faltered, dropped, crashed, but hurt no one. New London looked up, saw Lieut. Smith's mechanician drop a message to his family. All the Connecticut towns along Long Island Sound beheld the droning machines moving steadily down...
...fought unharmed through the great war from May, 1915, when he obtained his pilot's certificate. Piloting a commercial airplane on a prosaic civilian task, his plane got out of control and fell into a wood near the village Dameraucourt near Beauvais. Casale was crushed and killed. His mechanician escaped without injury...