Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President wanted no military display of the fighting force he had mobilized for possible service in revolutionary Cuba, no semblance of a presidential review which might be misinterpreted in Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party. To kill time he summoned Col. Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams, commander of the 7th Regiment, to the Sequoia's deck, discussed the Cuban situation with him, told him what would be expected of him and his men if sent to intervene...
Speed Record. Lee Gehlbach of Detroit took up his Wasp-engined Wedell- Williams Special for a try at Major James H. Doolittle's land plane speed record of 294.38 m.p.h., failed to crack it. Another Wedell-Williams behaved differently when its designer, one-eyed James R. Wedell, took it up. Over a three-kilometer course he definitely broke the land plane record at 305.33 m.p.h...
Major J. Nelson Kelly, manager of the field, who with his wife and Pilot George Haldeman followed the plane in an automobile after its start up the runway, said later that he felt sure de Pinedo would stop after his overladen ship, reeling drunkenly under 1,030 gal. of gasoline, veered almost off the concrete as it got up to 80 m.p.h. But the man in the cabin was obsessed. He straightened the Santa Lucia and roared ahead. He lifted the tail...
When a heavy plane's tail is lifted, torque from the propeller or giving it the gun too quickly may slew the ship sideways for an instant, heavily taxing the pilot's skill to keep his course. That apparently happened to de Pinedo, and his skill failed. Not yet going fast enough to rise, his ship slewed sharply, heading straight for the field's administration building where 150 persons stood watching. Then it slewed further as though, foreseeing danger to many, de Pinedo chose disaster for himself alone. The thundering Bellanca crashed through a heavy wire fence...
...Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely to the embassy in Buenos Aires. There he played polo and hunted. He kept his peace with good grace until this year-the year of Balbo's triumphal armada flight-he appeared in New York intent...