Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week in the new Fokker "flying wing" observation plane (TIME, Sept. 29) flew Pilot-Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker and Fokker Engineer Stephen A. Forberger, co-designer of the craft. Over the city's outskirts one of the Fokker's gasoline tanks ran dry, cutting both motors. Aware that Pilot Crocker, who had never flown the plane before, would not know what valve to turn. Engineer Forberger hastily clambered up through the cowling of his front cockpit and started back over the wing to direct him. Meanwhile the pilot who had no time to lower the plane...
This situation also the Government's troops soon had in hand. Martial law was proclaimed throughout the land. Major Franco had to jump into his plane again, fly away. Came a report he had crashed to his death 300 kilometres east of Madrid...
...buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay farmlands and scrub forests of eastern Virginia to Richmond's Richard E. Byrd Field. An hour later the plane slips into Hoover-Washington Airport. Here the pilot makes a careful check of weather ahead: fogs from the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River may be wet.-Setting out again the plane cuts halfway between the Capitol and Washington Monument...
Delaware River where within ten minutes the plane darts from Delaware to New Jersey to Pennsylvania and back to New Jersey. The last leg of the northbound flight raises the grey spires of Princeton before the plane drops down on the smoke-plumed Jersey meadows at Newark Airport...
...Last week a plane carrying Secretary of War. Patrick Hurley from Washington to New York for the Army-Navy game was forced down by thick fog at Edgewater Arsenal, Md. While the plane was landing, a piece of the fuselage Was blown loose, struck and gashed the .pilot's head, -momentarily stunned him. ∙Comparable rather to a marine keel-laying was the ring-laying and driving of a golden rivet at the beginning of construction on Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.'s ZRS-4, first of the two great Navy dirigibles, last year at Akron (TIME...