Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warriors extend their sphere of conquest. To give Tokyo patriots something concrete to think about all lights were suddenly switched out in the main section of the city at 9 p. m. one night last week. Sirens screeched an air raid alarm. For one hour a government plane flew around and around dropping fireworks and leaflets. These announced that the nights of August 9, 10 and 11 have been set aside for "grand aerial maneuvers over Tokyo and the vicinity...
...atmosphere at a big airport is always charged with some excitement. Even a little sport plane whizzing in from a pleasure hop makes visitors stand still and watch. At night, the red obstruction lights on outlying buildings and poles, the lower amber lights stretching around the field to mark it for invisible arrivals from the sky, and the beacon revolving like a spotlight groping for the actor, make a big airport such as Floyd Bennett Field into a gigantic theatre where mass drama can take place. There were easily 50,000 people in the audience at Floyd Bennett one night...
...burst on. Down into the gleaming sea of light glided the purple & white Winnie Mae, dancing lightly up the runway at precisely midnight. It was more than the crowd could bear. Thousands and thousands of excited men & women climbed through, under and over the fences, surged toward the taxiing plane, behaved much as another historic crowd behaved one night in 1927 at Le Bourget...
Scouts. Col. Lindbergh, technical adviser to Pan American, had the job of inspecting prospective landing places, charting the upper air, studying the effects of the Magnetic Pole and Northern Lights on his plane's radio and direction-finder. In the latter chore-radio testing-he had the valuable help of his wife who has a "better sending fist" than Lindbergh himself. She holds a radio operator's license, can transmit 20 words per minute...
...half-breed Indian wife. Carlotta and the Irishman join their party, show them Vienna night-life and go on with them to Munich. There they get into a Nazi shooting scrape and are befriended by a doctor who is also a famed airman and the inventor of a mystery plane. He invites them to accompany him on his trial flight to an unknown destination. Amid much municipal fuss they take off at dusk, fly all night in an ecstatic frame of mind. Carlotta and the Irishman are convinced they are flying to heaven. Next morning they land on a rainy...