Word: planed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swarm of airplanes rose boisterously over Roosevelt Field, L. L, and buzzed westward in quest of $5,000. They were small, light Class B land planes of the commercial type, flying for a money prize in a transcontinental race to Spokane, Wash. Twenty-five started; that night pilots of twelve went to bed in Chicago; the first official stopping place. Thick, drizzly weather and brutally bumpy air over the Alleghenies stirred pilots to call it the most dangerous hop they had ever made. Over half of the planes came down short of the stopping point owing to weather, engine...
Healthy & Wise. Connecticut's governor, John H. Trumbull, shook his head. He would not fly in the Maine State Forestry Department's plane from Moosehead Lake to Augusta. He inspected the plane, took a train to Augusta. Soon the plane fell into Lake Caucomgumoc, killing pilot and passenger...
Months of preparation had preceded their disappearance. Publisher Hearst had taken every known precaution for Old Glory: A complete radio set, rubber raft, flares, much food for the flyers, even little metal mouthpieces which distill a cup of water from the breath every 24 hours. The destination of the plane was Rome, 4,100 miles away (115 miles beyond Clarence Chamberlin's endurance record into Germany.) The Pope in his Vatican nodded, pleased, when the wires told how Father Mullen, Old Orchard priest, had blessed the plane and tits mission just before the takeoff...
...Glory radioed distress. It was a foggy night, rainy, winds were high. Though the ships reached the vicinity within a few hours after the cry for help, the nervous fingers of their groping searchlights could not touch the spot where three men may have floated in a soggy plane, or on a little rubber raft...
Thos. Cook & Son, tourist agents, last week finished arrangements for the first organized U. S. air tour-from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, to Chicago, where the tourists are to see the forthcoming Tunney-Dempsey prizefight; and return. Planes. Twenty planes, carrying 4 to 8 passengers each, will make the tour. Each will have a glass enclosed cabin, wicker armchairs, radio headphones at each seat. Money's Worth. The round-trip fare of $575 includes hotel quarters at tour start and at Chicago, motor carriage between hotels and flying fields, a picnic lunch en route, re-served ringside...