Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Riviera. There, at her daughter Lady Ward's Villa Rosemary, the cold grew worse. Bronchial complications set in; her heart became affected. Dr. Robert Louis Levy, chief of the cardiac department of New York's Presbyterian Medical Center, was summoned by plane from Paris, but oxygen and his skill were no match for pneumonia and an aged heart. When Ambassador Edge, at the personal request of President Hoover, telephoned Cap Ferrat next morning he was told that Mrs. Reid had died quietly ten minutes before. Her body was taken to Paris...
...first object of Fokker's scorn. Concerning the flight itself (in the Fokker-built America), Fokker dwells upon what airmen already knew: that the ability and steady nerve of Pilot Bernt Balchen were largely-if not solely-responsible for the right-side-up landing of the plane near Ver-Sur-Mer in France and the escape of the crew. Here he italicizes a sentence from Byrd's own book Skyward: "Balchen happened to be at the wheel...
...cause for Fokker's rancor suggests itself earlier in the same chapter, where he tells of selling his first trimotored plane to Byrd for the latter's North Pole flight of 1926 "on condition that the Fokker name would be left on it. Edsel Ford had liberally financed Byrd, still, I was somewhat surprised to hear later that the Fokker had somehow become Josephine Ford...
Majesty's Mail. Fortnight ago the first mail plane of Imperial Airways' new London-Australia service (with which addition the company serves four continents) ran out of fuel near Kupang on the Island of Timor, cracked up in a forced landing. Last week Australia's air hero Charles Kingsford-Smith flew from Port Darwin across the Timor Sea to Kupang, in his famed Southern Cross, and returned with the mail from the crippled City of Cairo. Not discouraged. Imperial Airways last week dispatched its second Australian mail plane from Croydon, England. By schedule, the flight should take...
Farewell. Flying a small pursuit plane at Fort Stotsenburg, P. I., Lieut. Marvin M. Burnside chased after a great twin-motored bomber which had just taken off, to wave "goodbye" to its pilot, his close friend Lieut. Marion Huggins. He had nearly overtaken the bomber when suddenly the backwash of its propellers hit the little plane, flung it about like a leaf, dashed it to the ground. Unaware of the occurrence, Lieut. Huggins flew on to Nichols Field, Manila, there learned that his friend was dead...