Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rescued from behind the enemy lines, The Dawn Patrol is exciting. It contains some of the best air photography ever made. Good shots: German troops shot down from the air, falling where they stand manning the anti-aircraft guns; German munition centre demolished by bombs from an English plane...
...Curtiss Condor biplane, taxiing to its hangar at a Long Island airport, suddenly ground looped, plowed into a crowd of holiday spectators. The whirling propellers killed a man and a wife. The plane bore the insignia of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser of T. A. T.-Maddux. Daily News screamed in full width headlines: LINDBERGH LINER KILLS...
Many an unexplained crash of aircraft in stormy weather has called forth the theory that the plane was struck by lightning. Last week the possibility was offered again. An old Lockheed monoplane, carrying four Kansas City businessmen and a transport pilot home from a fishing trip, took off from Aransas Pass, Tex., climbed 4,000 ft., disappeared in a big black cloud. A moment later watchers saw the ship hurtle out of the cloud, its wing trailing like a broken limb. The hull crashed to earth, disintegrating as it fell. All occupants were killed. There was no explosion, no fire...
Airmen are reluctant to credit the lightning theory in general because evidence, in virtually all cases, is lacking. The Department of Commerce has no cases on record where it was definitely established that a plane was struck by lightning. Extensive ground tests with artificial lightning conducted by Ohio Insulator Co. upon a Barling NB3 monoplane produced no material damage, but did give rise to a belief that the psychological (also blinding, deafening) effect of a lightning flash close at hand may incapacitate a pilot long enough for disaster to occur...
...Flagpole Sitting." Capt. John O. Donaldson and Pilot Ole Oleson planned a flight to test the endurance of planes, not of pilots. At Roosevelt Field, L. I. a Stinson monoplane would be flown by relays of relief pilots sent aboard at intervals by a rope ladder dropped from the refuelling plane. The pilot being relieved would drop to earth with a parachute. Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said...