Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Army Cure. Early next morning, Col. Lindbergh and Miss Morrow climbed into small yellow biplane, made three short flights. Col. Lindbergh handled the plane deftly with his left hand...
...touching the ground, the plane ran along, neatly balanced on its one wheel, for a few seconds. Then the wheelless axle struck the sun-baked earth; the plane dragged 30 yards, suddenly flopped over on its back...
Three Inches. A few days later, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who is tabloided as "Lady Lindy," did a somersault in the mud at Curtiss Field, Long Island, while attempting to land her plane. This received space averaging three inches in the same newspaper which had made the Lindbergh-Morrow flop story...
...zealous work of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce and the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, newspapers now give no more emphasis to air accidents than to motor or train accidents. And seldom do they mention the name of the plane and motor in the crash. The idea of this censorship is to avoid scaring prospective airplane owners and riders, to protect the public's air-consciousness from unnecessary jars...
...Berlin, the Raab-Katzenstein airplane makers hitched a motorless glider to the tail of a regular plane. To the tail of that glider they hitched a second glider. This "train"-the air equivalent of a motor truck with tandem trailers-taxied across the field and managed to take off, the plane tugging, the gliders lunging after. Soon the "train" straightened out in smooth flight and without difficulty attained an altitude...