Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus came Death to Knute Kenneth Rockne, famed 43-year-old coach of Notre Dame University's football team. Coach Rockne had boarded the plane that morning at Kansas City, California-bound...
...only people in the world who are more insistent than body-building enthusiasts are calendar reformers. A high-school course in plane geometry has imbued them with a passion for neat mathematical balance and their sensitive souls are seared by the irregularity of Gregorian months. Unfortunately, spring has its animating influence on the just and on the unjust, and the Fixed Calendar League has emerged from its hibernation to plague honest...
...wait for a special train to arrive with more fuel. There he was passed by crack Pilot Robert H. Fogg, flying an open biplane with a Paramount cameraman. Pilot Fogg (who, like Balchen, was one of the few pilots to reach Greenly Island and the stranded air- plane Bremen three years ago) circled Horse Island while his companion photographed the icebound rescue ships carrying the 127 survivors. He tried to land, wrecked the plane's undercarriage...
...feel"' of the plane, basic requisite of flying, is usually imparted to beginners by sending them up in a dual-control plane with an instructor. Last week at Glenn Curtiss airport, N. Y. a new method was introduced, to give students the ''feel" by letting them "fly solo" before leaving the ground. Equipment used: i) a glider mounted to swing in the blast of a fan; 2) an almost wingless "kiwi" or taxiplane which scoots around the field but cannot rise and which has strong hoops in front to protect the tyro if he noses over; 3) an ordinary glider...
...ropostale. In 1928 a plane of money-losing Compagnie Générale Aéropostale carrying a passenger from Morocco to Toulouse, flew into a severe storm over Spain. The pilot was pitched out of his cockpit and fell to death. The pilotless plane crashed, killing the passenger. Heirs sued for $20,000. Aéropostale argued that every precaution had been taken by government officials who inspected the planes and gave clearance for each departure. The storm, said the company, was clearly an Act of God. Last fortnight, the court ruled in favor of Aéropostale. Insisting that the company must...