Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile-long runway, then eased her into a gentle climb-100 ft. altitude in about three miles. They were off into the east, to what destination even they knew not. Their sole objective: to fly as far as possible, perhaps to India, to break the 5,130 mi. nonstop record held by Great Britain. Through that day and night and the next day the Joseph LeBrix, sturdy but slow, plodded across the Atlantic. Storms battered her. but visibility meant little to her pilots; they were flying by instrument and by radio. On the second evening they swooped low-over...
...from Istres Airdrome in southern France. They will cross the Mediterranean to the west coast of Morocco, fly down the coast to the shoulder of Senegal, thence inland across the French Sudan, nearly to the Congo. Finally, north over the Sahara to the Mediterranean again, and home - 15,600 mi. in all. Volunteer officers & crew were called to begin training, at Istres. Like Balbo's men, they will be held strictly incommunicado until time to take off. Air Minister Pierre Cot, who only lately learned to fly, will not try to imitate Air Minister Balbo by leading the squadrons...
...Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle. Ceremonies lasted seven hours. Soldiers and sailors paraded the field. Massed bands countermarched. Radio loudspeakers brought from Manhattan the voice of Professor Arthur Holly Compton. scientific director of the flight, wishing Commander Settle luck in breaking Auguste Piccard's 10-mi. altitude record and in gathering data on cosmic and ultraviolet rays. A major-general had the honor of starting the hydrogen gas hissing into the acre of white rubberized bag-biggest ever built. An admiral saw to the hooking on of the spherical gondola made of metal ⅛-in. thick...
...evening last week a file of cars climbed craggy Virginia Canyon 50 mi. west of Denver, rolled suddenly into the narrow street of an ancient mining town, wedged in a gulch a mile and a half above sea level. Above the main street the houses of Central City hang on the gulch walls like loose bark. Oldtime shops, dance halls, faro games, were going full blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second...