Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equipped airplane, piloted by Bob Reeve, carried the first load of equipment to the camp 60 miles from here, on May 16, after waiting five weeks for the weather to clear. As the plane had to fly over a 12,000 feet range, perfect flying weather was necessary, according to Washburn...
Boeing and Douglas have both been working independently on commercial transport planes with pressurized cabins. As TIME said, "the Boeings will be ready for airline service before the Douglas plane."-ED. Liberals (Cont...
...usual, the Department of Commerce last week began an investigation of the crash, but its findings could not be made known for weeks. Less stately was the pace of the coroner of Los Angeles County-where two other major plane crashes have occurred in the Saugus-New-hall Hill area. Said he: "The crash was accidental and due to faulty judgment on the part of both pilot and co-pilot...
...airports. If Congress makes a happy landing with some such legislation as the Hildebrandt Bill, now languishing in a House committee, the U. S. will pay for landing units at all important fields, and airlines will need to install only about $1,000-worth of receiving instruments in each plane...
...airport in East Farmingdale, L. L. Captain Ugo V. D'Annunzio son of the late Italian Poet-Flyer Gabriele D'Annunzio, stalled the engine in his airplane. He hopped out, spun the propeller. As the motor caught and the plane began to move, Aviator D'Annunzio ducked the wing., missed the cabin, was knocked flat by the tail. The pilotless plane wheeled dizzily round the field, crashed through a fence, pinned a woman bystander against her automobile. The woman was hospitalized. Charged with third-degree assault, Flyer D'Annunzio was arrested, held in $500 bail...