Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after turning northward, a bird struck a wing of the big amphibian. Airmen always think this is a bad augury. Halfway to Angmagsalik the party ran into a blinding blizzard that whipped up a nasty sea, blotted out the visibility. Snow so loaded the plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon...
Next day the family and crew built a flimsy shelter with stones and a piece of fabric stripped from the plane. From clambering over the rocks in thin shoes, the children's feet were bruised and bleeding. New shoes were fashioned from life preserver covers. Soup and coffee were warmed over an alcohol flame. As the second night began the group split a quart of champagne which Mrs. Hutchinson had saved...
...Nurses' Aviation Service, organized to serve in time of floods, storms and other disasters. It was as a representative of A. N. A. S. that Nurse Newcomer, a licensed pilot, joined the flight. She expected to spell Pilot Ulbrich on the 40-hour grind to Rome. When the plane passed over Florence, Italy, Nurse Newcomer, who had taken lessons in parachute jumping, planned to bail out as a gesture in honor of First Nurse Florence Nightingale. Dressed in a white riding habit, she carried a dress which she forgot at the last moment and had to climb...
...lamb's wool and almond oil to stuff in their ears to prevent deafness. In the larder were three roast chickens, a dozen raw eggs, tomatoes, oranges, chocolate bars, tea tablets, honey to sweeten the tea, chewing gum and special aviation biscuits invented by Dr. Pisculli. If the plane were forced down at sea, the party had a three-pound still to distill salt water...
...American Nurse, the Bellanca monoplane was the ship that Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn flew, by fits & starts, around the world last year. Pilot Pangborn was at the field to see his old ship take off for its second transatlantic hop. After the takeoff. the big white plane was seen over Cape Cod, then 1,200 mi. on its course toward Cape Finisterre by the tanker Winnebago, then 400 mi. from Europe by the S. S. France. And then it was seen no more. On the night that The American Nurse was supposed to have landed in Rome...