Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japan, four aviators were in training for the long and arduous flight to the U. S. across the Pacific. "I consider myself already a dead man," was their oft-repeated toast. Last week one of the four, Yukichi Goto, went up as observer for another pilot. Their plane crashed and he was burned to death. Dauntless, his three comrades trained...
...Petersburg, Fla., nineteen-year-old Jeanne Durand wanted to set a new world's record for a parachute jump. Last week she climbed onto the wing of a plane, 15,000 feet in the air, and let go. Her parachute caught on the plane and she faced certain death until Dr. R. L. Ellis, her pilot, brought the ship safely to earth on one wheel and a wing tip, leaving her safe, grateful...
Inventor Nikola Tesla drew plans for a helicopter that would fly straight up from earth until safely high and then would cock over to fly like any other plane. Those plans he registered last week at the U.S. patent office, commenting that he would build no such helicopters himself but that they would work. His cocksureness arose from the fact that the multitude of his previous inventions had worked (TIME, July...
Harry Brooks, chief test pilot of the Stout-Ford Airplane Co., carrier of Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico, plunged into the sea off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., in a "flivver" plane of his own design. The wreckage was found afloat next day, but of Pilot Brooks there was no trace. He had hoped to see the day when his air "flivvers" would be in the hands of millions...
...notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...