Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policeman and a fireman died in a plane crash at Melrose Park, Ill. Two planes collided during a race at Binghamton, N. Y. Val Miner, manager of the Southern New York Flying Club, Inc., was killed instantly...
Lieut. Joseph C. Soper, 25, U. S. Army pursuit pilot, was killed before the eyes of 15,000 when his Curtiss plane dived into Lake Erie during an exhibition at Camp Perry, Ohio...
...aeronautical exposition at Mines Field, Los Angeles, Calif., Pilot Alden Baker and one passenger died in the crash of a Thunderbird plane...
...saddest of all was the case of Luke Briotta, 13, deaf and dumb. Pilot Charles Potholm took him for a ride and went into a loop-the-loop with the idea of frightening him into speech and hearing. But the plane never came out of that loop; Luke Briotta is still deaf and dumb-and dead. There had been a sickening dive, an explosion and flames, an ugly hole in a swamp near Agawam, Mass. Pilot Potholm and another passenger also died...
...Angeles, where an aeronautical exposition was in full blast, the first to arrive in the class A event was Earl Rowland of Wichita, Kans., in a Cessna monoplane. Scarcely had the dust settled from his plane when Robert Drake of Pittsburgh landed to take second place. Soon thousands of eyes .searched the horizon for Class B and C fliers...