Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the eyes of the world were sweeping the Atlantic, anxious, fearful of the fate of two flying Germans and an Irishman, a tiny plane droned its way across the unknown waste and terror of the Arctic. Impervious to disappointment, danger, tragedy, Capt. George Hubert Wilkins and Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson took off unannounced from Point Barrow, Alaska, came down for five dismal days on uninhabited Doedmansoeira (Dead Man's Island), arrived last week triumphant at the haven of Spitzbergen...
...dangers of the 2,200-mile trip, slightly south of the North Pole on the Greenland side over a region never before seen by articulate man, particularly beckoned to Capt. Wilkins. He finally made it in 20½ hours of flying time, in a small Lougheed Vega plane capable of a sustained speed of 135 miles an hour. His record indicates that he would have made the trip had it taken forever...
Friends of the dynamic and air conscious duchess recall that she recently passed a vacation in Spain, dashing after mountain eagles in her plane. Not demented, she was merely seeking scientific data upon the flying characteristics of eagles and buzzards...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh hopped off from airport at Williams, Ariz., in his new and unchristened Ryan monoplane, landed on plateau six miles away, climbed out, went to nearby ranch, asked astonished owner for some lunch, got it. Inhabitants of Williams heard Col. Lindbergh's plane was down, rushed to plateau in automobiles, found plane unharmed, found note in Col. Lindbergh's handwriting stuck in window: "Gone to lunch...
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, air pioneer, president of the Curtiss Aeroplane Co., has never had a serious accident in a plane. But last week he suffered many bruises and a severe shock when a speeding automobile crashed into the parked automobile in which he was sitting, near Auburn...