Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smiling toothily in the glory of a new white uniform, Carol stood on a platform at Brasov (formerly Hungary) to review Rumania's air forces. A flight of battle planes appeared, landed successfully before the reviewing stand?all but the squadron leader who got lost on the way, was still missing at nightfall. Prince Nicholas, who has recently abandoned roaring motor cars for airplanes, arrived at the field nearly two hours late in a French Potez 25 reconnaissance plane, bounced off the ground twice in attempts to land, finally brought his plane careening to earth. Just as the review...
...Faroe Islands in routine order, ostentatiously prepared to "fly back to Germany." But the captain refused to accept letters addressed to his homeland. An hour after their departure, Capt. von Gronau radioed to an astounded family, school and Transportation Ministry that he was headed west. Soon the plane reached Ivigtut, Greenland, pushed on to Cartwright Bay, Labrador, was forced down by rain at Queensport Harbor, N. S.; there waited for clear weather to fly to New York. Back at List, envious left-behind students crowded the inns, "Hoched"' their lucky colleagues and their respected chief time and time again...
...spectacular than the solo events were the tricks of the Navy's High Hat and Red Ripper squadrons from the Lexington; the Army's crack First Pursuit Squadron from Self ridge Field; and the Quantico Marines. Most novel stunt: three Navy Boeings, wing to wing, flopping over as one plane in a "formation barrel-roll...
...Gronau received a note: "I am leaving on a longer trip. Love to you and the children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane, a two-motored Dornier-Wal flying boat, was the same used by Roald Amundsen in his attempted Polar flight of 1925, and by Capt. Frank Courtney in an unsuccessful Atlantic flight...
...fast bomber piloted by his personal pilot Squadron Leader David S. Don, H. R. H. went up to watch the fighting. In the afternoon he decided to change sides, approached the Blue headquarters of Air Marshal Sir Edward Leonard Ellington. It had been a poor week for fighting planes. A patrol of six fighters defending the Blue base saw a single red bomber approaching. Not recognizing the Prince's plane they dove at it with whoops of joy, raked it with imaginary machine guns, "sat on its tail" in approved fashion, forced it ignominiously to earth. Wales, grinning good-naturedly...