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Word: planed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parachute. Miss Myrtle Jarbo plunged from a stunt plane at Toledo, Ohio, secured to a parachute. As she floated earthward, her parents (long divorced) rushed across the flying field to greet her, plunged unexpectedly into each other's arms. Came love. Three days later they remarried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Travelog | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, landed in Washington after 11,905 miles by airplane. He made 48 hops, inspected army posts in North and West. Whimsically he christened his plane The Spirit of Unrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Travelog | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...middle-aged woman, smiling, stepped out of a plane at Le Bourget Field, Paris. She had driven the plane from Lyons, France, that morning, accompanied by a pilot. She was the Duchess of Bedford (England), "just touring Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Travelog | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Topsy-Turvy. Tired of craning his neck over the edge of his plane to see the earth, Aviator Fisler (German) turned his plane over at Zurich and peered at the earth for eleven minutes. The upside-down flying record was claimed. Herr Fisler flipped his plane over, landed safely. He was not dizzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics Notes, Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Thieves climbed into a commercial plane at Troy, Ohio; tinkered with the gadgets; started the motor; flew away with the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics Notes, Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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