Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Washington's Boiling Field last week soared a big Army plane carrying Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley on the first leg of his journey to the Philippines. The same day on the other side of the globe Missouri's Senator Harry Bartow ("Beets") Hawes sailed from Manila for the U. S. via China. During his six-week visit to the islands Senator Hawes had united a great mass of Filipinos for immediate independence, whipped their enthusiasm for freedom to the highest pitch in years. It was now Secretary Hurley's mission to find deft ways...
Arriving by plane at Seattle, Secretary Hurley would there embark on a 23-day trip across the Pacific to Manila. Before he left Washington he conferred long and solemnly with President Hoover whose eyes and ears he will be in the Philippines. At its next session Congress is more than likely to pass a bill freeing the islands. To be forearmed for such legislation, the President wanted his war chief to make a special survey of Philippine economics and politics. President Hoover in principle opposes independence for the Philippines but last week it was hinted he might, on the strength...
...Graf. Because her cells are filled with helium, the Akron's Maybach motors can be and are carried within the envelope, for accessibility, streamlining, speed. Each propeller-two-bladed, wooden, mounted at the end of an outrigger shaft-can be turned down to whirl in a horizontal plane (helicopter-like) as an aid to taking off and landing. (The whirling direction is reversible...
...Istanbul Big-framed Russell N. Boardman, onetime cowboy, motorcyclist and wingwalker, and small John L. Polando, onetime garage mechanic, pulled the Bellanca monoplane Cape Cod up from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, and struck the well-travelled Great Circle Course to Europe. For two nights and a day the plane was unsighted from land or sea, even when it dropped a copy of the New York Times upon Le Bourget Field. It landed at Istanbul's Yeshilkeuy Airdrome, 5,011 mi. and 49 hr. from the takeoff. For their superb piloting and navigation, for being the first eastward transatlantic...
...York? Seventeen minutes after the Cape Cod took off, another Bellanca monoplane chased after her from the same field, the Miss Veedol, manned by Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn. They thought they could beat the eight-day record of Post & Gatty around the world. Their plane was much slower than the bulletlike Winnie Mae but it had a longer cruising range, and Herndon & Pangborn could take turns at the controls whereas Pilot Post was obliged to fly without relief. They gained time by cutting short their stops, but unscheduled landings put the Miss Veedol about...