Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mail test flights, two Army planes had forced landings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Three days later a reserve officer called to postal duty was ferrying a Douglas bomber to the Army's western airmail base. He got lost in the Idaho badlands, crashed and burned to death near Jerome. Same day two more reserve pilots were delivering a plane to the western base when they ran into a blizzard near Salt Lake City. Ice coated the ship, bore it down out of control. So inaccessible was the spot in which they died that the pilots' bodies...
...water power, expected by the proponents of the plane to not only pay for itself, but to provide the capital used in the building and upkeep of the canal, there is hardly sufficient market at present to fund the installation of the new power plants, let alone large enough profit to create a surplus for the support of the proposed waterway. It is cheaper to produce power in New York by coal and steam, than to wire it south from the St. Lawrence valley...
...doing a masterful job in whipping the Navy's air force into an effective fighting unit. After a year he was made a rear admiral, but in spite of his rank, dignity and grey beard, he was frequently to be found not only in the cockpit of a plane but also driving his second-hand Ford roadster...
...Some day airplanes will fly across the ocean on schedule." In the popular mind that has long been one of the most important milestones ahead for aviation. Last week the milestone apparently was at hand. Germany, long ago first in the air with a dirigible service, announced that mail plane service across the South Atlantic would start Feb. 3. On that day a Luft Hansa flying boat is scheduled to take off from Stuttgart, Germany. She will roar south and west to Cadiz, the Canary Islands, West Africa, then shoot across the ocean to the seadrome Westphalen, riding in midocean...
...score of the Ruppert's crew scrambled out upon the ice with fire extinguishers, bandages and iodine ready for a bad crash. In less skillful hands than Pilot June's the plane probably would have gouged her skis into the ice, somersaulted into a heap. Coolly he pulled his Condor's nose up almost to the stalling angle, squashed the ship's tail into the snow. The skis bounced up into a near horizontal. In that split second Pilot June set the ship down safely...