Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seater Army bombing plane, tearing through space at more than two miles per minute, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald returned last week from his Scottish home at Lossiemouth for the reopening of Parliament after Easter recess (450 miles in about four hours). On this wild air ride, which he has made a habit during the past two years, Mr. MacDonald serenely perused Gifts of Fortune and Hints for Those About to Travel by Henry Major Tomlinson. Miss Ishbel MacDonald piloted a plane for half an hour last week, aspires (so she said) to become her father's regular pilot...
Chang Jr., despatches said last week, has now bought himself a trimotored Ford plane, commutes in it between Mukden, his inherited Capital of Manchuria, and Peiping (once Peking). At Peiping his official style is "His Excellency Chang Hsueh-liang, vice Commander of the Army & Navy with Jurisdiction over Four Provinces & Governor of Manchuria...
...week, that did not mean the show was not a good one. Rather it meant that the developments shown there, while important to the industry, were no longer spectacular to the layman, who has come to regard aviation as a matter-of-fact. The building of a 30-passenger plane is no longer front-page news...
Openly contesting the accounts of the transatlantic flight of the "America", as related by Byrd, Fokker proceeds to give his own impressions of what happened on that memorable flight, describing the events in a manner that relegates Byrd to a minor part in the final desperate manoeuvers of the plane immediately preceding its dive into the sea near the lighthouse at Ver-sur-Mer on the French coast. The real hero at that time, according to this new autobiography, was not Byrd, as might be inferred by anyone reading the Admiral's accounts, but in reality Bernt Balchen...
...club has as yet not definitely decided what type of plane will be bought, but one or two club pilots within the next few weeks will be employed in trying out different makes. As soon as a definite decision has been arrived at, an order will be put in, and the new plane will be ensconced in the club hangar...