Word: mi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England had to do was let a sea- plane dawdle seven times around the 32-mi. triangle at Calshot to take permanent possession of the Schneider Trophy last week, since Italy and France withdrew from the race (TIME, Sept. 14). But everyone knew the British flyers would try to better the winning speed of 1929 (328.6 m. p. h.), and the straightaway record (357.7 m. p. h.) made a week later by Squadron Leader A. H. Orlebar...
Then Lieut. G. H. Stainforth taxied out in another S-6B to attack Orlebar's world speed record. With a diving start from 1,400 ft. down to about 150 ft., he flashed six times back & forth over a straight- away of about 1.8 mi. The crowds saw only a speck with a tail of smoke. When it was over the stopwatches showed an average of 379.05 m. p. h. On one lap Lieut. Stainforth's time had been 388.6, faster than man had ever flown, more than eight times faster than the winner of the first Schneider...
...French Line's experiments began in 1928, a year before the North German Lloyd's. An amphibian would leave the He de France about 400 mi. from New York; on eastward voyages, off the Scilly Islands to land on Le Bourget. For sake of economy no flights were made this season...
...North German Lloyd liner Europe. hove-to with engines idling 600 mi. off -Cape Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west...
...extraordinary. Mail planes have been catapulted from the Europa and Bremen and from the French Line's lie de France many a time. But never had it been attempted so far from New York. Mail planes heretofore have left ships off Cape Cod, 600 or 700 mi. from port. The Europa was 1.275 mi. out of New York. Six hours after leaving the steamer the seaplane alighted at Sydney, Cape Breton Island, discharged its Canadian mail, refuelled. Then it flew all night down the coast to Bridgeport. Conn., fuelled again, taxied up to the Europa's Brooklyn pier...