Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oakland, Cal., March 13--A Douglas mystery ship, now under-going tests which may stamp it the first self-flying plane in the world, will take off from Oakland Airport at midnight today for Honolulu, it was learned from unimpeachable sources tonight...
Last week Clem Sohn went up in a plane, jumped at 12,000 ft. After a sheer drop of 2,000 ft. he spread his arms and legs, felt the air sustain him. Like a spread-eagled bat he slanted steeply downward, getting the "feel" of his wings. Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop. Then he zoomed left & right, leveled off, dived, pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from...
...Working with, instead of against the newspapers, will get the negative publicity out of the way quickly and it will be possible for Eastern Air Lines to secure the assistance of the Press, such as eliminating the name of the company on the wrecked plane in taking photographs,* and minimizing unfavorable photographs and reference in stories of the crash. By giving all the information possible immediately, of the incident, the story will be covered in one issue and the papers will have nothing to write about to drag it along for several days...
Upminister workmen saw the Sisters du Bois leap from Pilot Kirton's plane. Hands clasped together, they fell 4,000 ft., landed in a cabbage patch. Jane's wristwatch, its crystal unbroken, still ticked near her corpse...
Fastest U. S. transport plane is the Cord Vultee, an eight-passenger single-motored (Wright Cyclone) all-metal low-wing monoplane introduced few months ago on American Airlines. Month ago Jimmy Doolittle flew a Vultee to a new coast-to-coast transport record of 11 hr. 59 min. (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week an obscure American Airlines pilot named Leland S. Andrews climbed into the Doolittle Vultee at Los Angeles, streaked non-stop to Washington to deliver a box of orchids to Mrs. Roosevelt. After a 12-minute stopover he took off again, hopped to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett...