Word: planed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warships strung out in a long grey line against lazily heaving waves and the deep blue of the sky. Huge battleships, their flags flying, moved along like imperturbable swimming pyramids; slim grey destroyers cut through the water as precisely as a butcher's whirling knife slices cheese; ungainly plane and submarine tenders waddled past. The only sounds were the faint swish of the waves, the wasp-like drone of seaplanes soaring overhead...
Senator William Henry King of Utah: "My son Paul is an intrepid flyer. Last week as he piloted his plane, a Department of Commerce type, over Boiling Field on his way to Dayton, Ohio, he decided to land. The right wing caught in the grass and spun the plane around; out of the wreckage they dug my son Paul, unhurt...
...years ago the Atlantic Monthly asked the question, "How can a man get off a frictionless plane?" It was a Harvard professor who supplied the only satisfactory answer when he replied: "The only way to get off to the north is to spit to the south...
...gallant Major explained that a faulty oil pipe had caused his descent, in a rough sea, near the mouth of the Fatma River. Waves quickly smashed the plane. It was a hard mile swim to shore. Soon Moorish tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while...
...within 15 miles of the Pole, and that was very close. On that trip Peary lay on his stomach for 30 hours sighting to determine the exact spot, and then didn't quite succeed. In 1925 Byrd and I probably flew over the Pole, but the trembling of the plane made sighting impossible. It is believed that on his 1926 fly, Byrd passed over the Pole, but no one will ever know for certain...