Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week Amir Amanullah pursued a strenuous routine. At his request all banquet speeches were cut to bare minimums of compliment. Thus time was gained in which His Majesty visited numerous industrial plants and later the great Tempelhofer flying field. There he was presented with a 10-passenger 3-motored plane worth some $60,000. Doubtless the makers hope for future cash orders from Afghanistan, but last week "The Light of the World" did not so much as take a trial sweep in his expensive toy. What seemed to interest His Majesty most was a military review, during which Reichswehr troops...
...small plane taxied right up to the fence of the home at Bundaberg, Australia, last week. Flyer Harold (Bert) Hinkler stepped stiffly out and kissed his mother waiting there. That was the goal of his record-breaking solo flight from Croyden, England, to the Antipodes...
...India I remember three things-blistering heat, air currents that threw my plane and me about like a shuttlecock and endless crowds of kind-hearted people pressing hospitality upon me." Calcutta's port . . . Burmese forests . . . Singapore, where mud hindered his take-off and made him almost strike low buildings. Over Melanasia, and the East Indies tropical rains swept around...
Clarence Duncan Chamberlain, New York-to-Berlin flyer, started on a lecture tour of the southern states in a Sperry-Messenger plane last week. He did the first lap through a snowstorm, and will do 5,000 miles in five weeks. His plane has a 26-foot wingspread...
...especially if no material consideration is involved. But in the partisanship of the Smithsonian Institute in behalf of the Langley airplane, Orville Wright, co-designer with his brother of the first man-carrying machine, finds that credit is stinted the achievement. His subsequent disposition of the Kitty Hawk plane as a gift to the South Kensington Museum is decidedly a mark of displeasure that benefits the English institution while depriving the American one of a monument to courage and ingenuity, as well as to the first conquest...