Word: mishap
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Flying a 90 h. p. Gipsy-Moth which had seen considerable taxi-service in England, Miss Johnson covered more than half the 11,500-mi. route well ahead of Hinkler's schedule before mishap overtook her at Rangoon. Burma. There she mistook the landing field and taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump...
...Yale team, was operated on for appendicitis about five weeks ago and is still recuperating. Hope is now, however, still entertained at New Haven that the star hurdler will be able to enter competition next Saturday against Harvard; if he does this and gets through without physical mishap, he should make a successful bid to defend his championship next week...
...Mays, Charles Devens, Lewis, and Burns all received minor bruises which kept them quiet, yesterday, but they are all excepted out in good shape today. Davis who was injured last week is in condition again and will start against New Hampshire as Captain Barrett's running mate, barring further mishap...
...ship, diving at 200 m.p.h. Floating down in his parachute he laughed at the episode and took up another stunting ship immediately. The Army Air Corps has a questionnaire which flyers must fill out after accidents. Last week, newspapers had fun printing Flyer Doolittle's report on his Cleveland mishap. The phrases were as short and compact as their author. His "description of method of leaving plane" was two words...
...Spokane Sun God, a Buhl biplane with Wright whirlwind motor, carried Lieut. Nick B. Mamer and Pilot Art Walker. At first they had trouble in making their refueling contacts on their way to New York. More fortunate were they on their way back, had reached St. Paul without mishap as the new week began. Texas Co. (gas & oil) announced that it would establish refueling stations over the country to accommodate such flights in the future...