Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took off in a Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
...crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours to summon help. Twelve hours later searchers located the plane, extricated Goldsborough. They carried him eight miles to Bennington where he died next day?his 20th birthday...
Barnstormer. Roy ("Jack Dare") Ahearn, famed barnstormer, parachute jumper and stuntflyer, head of the Red Wing Flying Circus, took a French Albert parasol monoplane aloft over Teterboro, N. J. At 4,000 ft. he dove the tiny craft in an attempted outside loop. The plane's 40-h. p. motor would not pull out of it. Four times Pilot Ahearn climbed slowly back to make another try. On the final attempt he threw the throttle open, held the plane's nose down longer than before. The wing tore loose, fluttered away. Un- checked, the fuselage bored down into the earth...
...Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator aboard Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between Roosevelt Field and Harbor Grace, N. F. in December 1927. The plane was to have attempted a flight to Denmark. Frank Goldsborough qualified for his pilot's license last November, established a junior record for transcontinental flight two months ago (TIME...
Journey's End. In Santa Maria, Calif, last week, Major Charles Kingsford-Smith presented his world-girdling monoplane Southern Cross to Capt. G. Allan Hancock, wealthy banker and oil operator, who had bought and loaned the plane to him for the California-Australia flight of 1928. When the Southern Cross landed safely in Australia, Capt. Hancock cabled Major Kingsford-Smith full title to it. Capt. Hancock, who took up flying as a result of his association with the Southern Cross crew, later gave Santa Maria an airport, established there an air college...