Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pimento sands and mint-jelly sea of Bermuda last week air tourists flew for the first time as Pan American and Imperial Airways simultanteously began passenger service from Port Washington, L.I. with one plane apiece each way per week.† This week Imperial was scheduled to send a flying boat on first test hops all the way across the Atlantic between the new airbases at Botwood, Newfoundland and Foynes, Ireland (TIME, Nov. 30; March...
When Russia established a base at the North Pole last month (TIME, May 31 & June 14), many were skeptical about the Soviet's announced intention of inaugurating a Moscow-San Francisco airline. Last week skeptics were confounded when a Russian plane nonchalantly flew non-stop from Moscow to the U. S. via the North Pole...
...Samson. Last Dec. 14, Pilot Samson took off from Los Angeles on his regular run to Salt Lake City in a Western Air Express Boeing. After stopping at Las Vegas, Nev., the twin-motored transport droned on north into a wintry night and oblivion (TIME, Dec. 28). Aboard the plane, which last reported hitting 199 m.p.h. at 10,000 ft. under a "high overcast," were four passengers, a co-pilot and pretty Hostess Gladys Witt, whose marital indecisions had been making headlines. When the plane never arrived, WAE launched a search which continued spasmodically until last week with the lure...
...This beam is notorious for "multiple effects" (splitting around mountains). Pilot Samson crashed 35 miles off course, apparently had lost the beam altogether. If he had been just a little higher, he would have cleared Hardy Ridge, had a safe path on to the airport. As it was, the plane was smashed into confetti and completely buried by snow. At week's end no bodies had yet been recovered and postal inspectors stood guard with guns while they salvaged a rich batch of gems...
Said Postal Inspector M. G. Wenger: "Evidently the plane - we think it must have been traveling about 207 m.p.h. - thundered head on into the steep-slanting, knife-edge ridge only 20 ft. from its top. Part of the undercarriage and nose, with much of the mail, ripped off upon the ridge, and the rest of the plane, with the seven bodies, plunged off the cliff, striking once about 400 ft. down and then ricocheting off and tumbling some 600 ft. more into the uptilted snow field...