Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold and windy evening last week, while the men in Paris still considered the Count's plan, a white plane with United Nations markings landed at Stockholm airport. It bore the coffin of Folke Bernadotte. In a hangar filled with dahlias and carnations, in the presence of the Count's 88-year-old father Prince Oscar (brother of Sweden's King Gustaf), a short ceremony took place. Said the old man to the men who had brought his son's body home: "Thank you for what you have done...
Then Bernadotte's body was transferred to a plane; after stopping in Rome and Paris, where statesmen paid tribute to him, he was flown home...
...that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal papers might contain vital evidence in the case. He had reportedly made a record of all his conversations with Cissie Patterson. So the Times-Herald quickly got an order from the executrix, chartered a plane and flew two men to Clarksburg to get Porter's luggage...
...Force's F-86 jet fighter set a new world's record for level flight. Skimming the salt flats of California's Muroc Lake, Major Richard L. Johnson flew the North American plane with swept-back wings at an average of 670.981 m.p.h. in four passes, matching the record he had made unofficially in Cleveland two weeks earlier (TIME, Sept...
...Force proudly pointed out that the plane was neither specially souped up nor an experimental model like the Navy's previous record holder, the Douglas 0-558 Skystreak. Johnson's plane was an off-the-line production job, fully loaded and ready to fight. And, said Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, it had not even been "full open...