Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature. However the exhibit will not be confined solely to this aspect of art as several other types including designs of locomotives will receive their share of the attention. One of the chief works presented will be a representation f Col. Charles A. Jandbergh flying his famous Trans-Atlantic plane over Niagara Falls. During the days between October 15-30 free admission will be accorded all students of Harvard University and Radcliffe Colege...
Bromley's Luck (cont.). In the fourth plane built for the purpose, Lieut. Harold Bromley & Navigator Harold Gatty finally took off last week from Samishiro Beach, Aomori Prefecture, Japan for a nonstop flight to Tacoma, Wash. Twenty-five hours later they were down again at Shiriyazaki, about 40 mi. from the starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust...
...first half day the plane covered only 750 mi. of its projected 4500 mi. course. (It carried fuel for 50 hr.) For the next twelve hours, its radio dead, the Tacoma was "lost" until it unexpectedly appeared out of the gloom at Shiriyazaki...
Lieut. Bromley first undertook the Pacific venture as a Tacoma-Tokyo solo flight early last year. His first plane, a Lockheed, was wrecked at the takeoff. Two more crashed in testflights. With the Emsco, Lieut. Bromley abandoned the westbound route because of prevailing headwinds, sailed for Tokyo with plane and navigator last July...