Word: midair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scapedeath. At Camp Kearney, Calif, last week the plane of Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U. S. N., world's unofficial altitude champion (43,166 ft.), collided with another in midair. As Lieut. Soucek jumped, his parachute fouled the falling wreck. Frantically he jerked at the shrouds, pulled them clear barely 200 ft. above the ground, suffered only a sprained back...
Died. Frederick Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin & Ava; Rosemary Millicent Ward, Viscountess Ednam & Sir Edward Simons Ward; Mrs. Henrik Loeffler; Pilot George L. P. Henderson; Assistant Pilot John Shearing; when their airtaxi, returning to London from Mrs. Loeffler's houseparty at Le Touquet, exploded midair; at Meopham, Kent, England...
...Senators-only session immediately following the present one. Dolefully Leader Watson explained that the Senate had been in continuous session for 16 months and was exhausted. He warned that at a special session the Senate was likely to walk out on the President and leave his Treaty dangling midair, either by voting to adjourn sine die or by deliberate failure to produce a quorum. To these arguments the President was adamant. He flatly refused to consider any program of postponement...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh has the greatest number of forced jumps to his credit-four. Before his initiation into the Caterpillars, he had made eleven exhibition jumps. In 1925, during his Army Air Corps training, he collided in midair with a classmate's ship. His second forced jump came the same year, test-flying a new ship at St. Louis. He jumped at 300 ft. altitude, landed too fast, dislocated his shoulder. In 1926, pushing blindly through fogs with airmail, looking for a rift to get down to land, he made his third and fourth jumps, the last from...