Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGinn was carrying the air mail from Cleveland to Chicago. He ran into a snowstorm and a 50 m. p. h. gale near Huron, Ohio, lost control of his plane. It fell on an apple tree, caromed into a barn owned by an undertaker. Pilot McGinn was decapitated as he was thrown from the cockpit. The barn, the plane and the mail bags burned quickly in the cold, whistling night...
Later in the week, four men were burned to death when a mail and passenger plane crashed near Chattanooga, Tenn...
Sleeping Passengers. Those who have flown as passengers to a definite destination know that, except for a few minutes after the takeoff, the trip becomes monotonous. William Bushnell Stout who makes all-metal planes for Ford Motor Co. and who is an executive of both Northwest Airways and Stout Air Services, remarked at Lehigh University last week that two out of five air passengers sleep enroute. In Germany last week one George Hermann slept so soundly while the Junkers plane on which he was a passenger bucked and twisted to a crash, that he knew nothing of the trouble until...
...Zone, last week. Three weeks ago he kissed Manhattan friends goodbye and started to fly to Bogota, Colombia, in his Curtiss seaplane, the Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired. The U.S. War Department offered him an Army plane wherewith to complete his voyage. Said Lt. Benny, sharply aware of his flight's significance to his native Colombia...
Peru's Circumnavigators. Intrepid Peruvians, Carlos Martinez de Pinillos and Carlos Zegarra, bought a Bellanca plane in New York and last week started to fly from Lima, Peru, back to Manhattan. But not by the shortest way. They are first circumnavigating the western, southern, and eastern edges of South America, stopping at the capitals of the various countries. Santiago, Chile, was their first visiting place...