Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken to task. It's rather disconcerting to find, for example, a Consolidated Commodore flying boat described as a consolidated (lower case c) Commodore. We hope it, and all other flying boats, are consolidated. We know only the Commodore is Consolidated. Likewise, there are many fleet training planes. There is only one model Fleet training plane...
...Harold L. Osborne was being borne aloft to make his final qualifying jump. Nervously he rehearsed his instructions to "bail out," to count to ten while he hurtled downward clear of the ship, then pull the ripcord of his 'chute. At a nod from the pilot of the plane, Private Osborne clambered half out of the cockpit, glanced once at the earth 2,000 ft. below, was seized by the "jitters." He dared not let go, he dared not turn back; so he reached for the steel ring above his heart and yanked it. In a split second...
...visit." They propose to travel the whole distance by easy stages from New York and return in their Lockheed-Sirius, the low-wing monoplane in which they made a transcontinental speed flight last year. At North Beach Airport, N. J. last week the landing wheels of the plane were replaced by pontoons to permit frequent landings for respite and refuelling...
...armada was to circle east and north over Connecticut, over Ossining, N. Y. sweep down the Hudson River (so that in case of accident no plane would fall in the city), dogfight over lower Manhattan, then proceed to dedicate the new Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn...
Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson,* chief backer of Captain Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff's Matto Grosso expedition, was at Descalvados, their base camp, with a chartered Sikorsky amphibian last week. They will use the plane to scout for animals they wish to capture. Alexander Siemel, jaguar-spearer, was limping gingerly. An alligator chewed his leg in March. Two members of the party were back at their homes-John Newel, Augusta, Mich, radio and talkie man, weakened by sunstroke; and William E. Green, amateur taxidermist of Trenton. N. J., poisoned by bites of insects and the jararaca snake...