Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When news of Hon. Averill's elopement reached Lord Furness by plane he loudly swore that he would disown any daughter of his who married a zebra trainer. Back flew the plane to Nairobi with a notice which last week appeared in the East African Standard...
...airline properly operated, with radio and blind-flight facilities, will not put a plane into a position where 'chutes are called...
Riding through the snows near Fort Tejon in the Tehachapi Range, about 65 mi. northwest of Los Angeles one day last week, an Indian cowhand espied against the white wall of a canyon a black smudge. Hundreds of searchers afoot, scores of planes had been hunting for nearly a week for that black smudge. Guessing what it was, the Indian turned back because he "didn't want to see any dead people." Others whom he directed to the canyon found the smudge to be the bodies of the pilot and seven passengers in the burned wreckage of a Century-Pacific...
Beer Preferred. Soon after the airplane St. Didier passed the North African coast in an attempted speed flight from France to Madagascar its wireless called for help. Forced down somewhere in the vast Sahara, the flyers. Jean Reginensi, Robert Lenier, Joseph Touge, were unhurt but thirsty. Rescue planes began hunting, but the stranded flyers could not state their location. For three days the crew continued to flash piteous accounts of their increasing thirst. In return they received messages of love from their families, advice to burn their oil and even their plane as a signal to searchers. On the third...
Again Christofersen. Exactly 20 years ago the late Silas Christofersen, early dare-devil flyer of the West, flew a flimsy home-made plane off the roof of Portland, Ore.'s Multonomah Hotel. Last week his widow left Seattle to salvage by plane a fur ship abandoned off Point Barrow, Alaska...