Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army, chief U. S. member of the Supreme War Council, military adviser to the U. S. delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference; of an intestinal ailment (despite efforts of five members of the National Free Public Blood Donors who flew to him in a Marine corps plane from Philadelphia); in Washington, D. C. A veteran of Spanish-American, Philippine, Mexican campaigns, he served 48 years in the Army, was active until 1920 although he passed the statutory age of retirement...
Please tell an interested subscriber the technical device used in Hell's Angels in the scene in which the airplane cut into the Zeppelin (TIME. June 29). I understand no models were used. Is this correct? If so how did the pilot of the plane get out in time...
...Herald Tribune: "Julian [on Sept. i, the day he sailed for Abyssinia] was one of the happiest men I have ever seen. His whole heart was set on the glory of the imperial Abyssinian Coronation . . . when he was to direct the aerial maneuvers from the new imperial plane. And a boundless future lay before him, as officer and statesman of the great Ethiopian Empire...
...Inno Stoan), Blackfoot Indian chief, hero of The Silent Enemy (cinema), completed 5 hr. 20 min. of dual flight instruction at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. Instructors, pilots, students stood with upturned chins one day last fortnight watching Long Lance make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every...
...days afterward, Buffalo Child Long Lance sat in a plane piloted by Parker ("Shorty") Cramer, onetime Arctic flying mate of Sir George Hubert Wilkins. When Pilot Cramer pulled a lever. Long Lance was dumped through the cabin floor into space with a parachute billowing over his head...