Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soared up last week from Croyden aerodrome, near London, one of the huge trimotored Fokker planes which Financier Loewenstein habitually described as his "flying offices." In the crew's compartment were Pilot Ronald Drew and Mechanic Robert F. Little. In the "office" flew British Stenographer Miss Edith Clarke and French Stenographer Mlle. Paule Bidalon. Also on board were Valet Frederick Baxter Backster and Secretary J. O. Hodgson. Three mighty engines thrashed the air around the plane into a 300 mile an hour gale, thrusting the Fokker across the English Channel at 100 miles per hour...
When they landed at Dunkerque, France, before proceeding to St. Ingbert, the six Loewenstein servants all said that M. Le Capitaine had been on board at the beginning of the flight and was discovered not to be on board when the plane was flying 4,000 feet above mid-Channel...
...said his servants, had been reading a book, laid it down after carefully marking the place, took off his collar and tie, went to the washroom, vanished. The servants all professed that they felt no such rush of air as would commonly be experienced if the door of the plane, which was opposite the washroom door, had been opened and become a funnel for the suction of the 175 mile gale...
Detroit women gathered about Pilot Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, onetime St. Paul parachute jumper (at 17), now a practical airplane dealer in Memphis. No Elder, Earhart, Boll or Rasche, Pilot Omlie is nevertheless a FIRST WOMAN, first to compete in the reliability tours. She flies a tiny cabin plane, takes her aviation intensely...
Altimeter: An instrument for measuring elevation of aircraft above a given plane (usually sea level...