Word: planed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman: "Home last week from France, where I had awaited the arrival of Pilot Rene Fonck and comrades in the ill-fated Sikorsky plane with which they had hoped to win my standing offer of $25,000 for a non-stop flight between New York and Paris (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.), I revealed that one-legged Pilot Paul Tarascon* and one-eyed Pilot François Coli, Frenchmen, were all but ready to try for my money in a flight from Paris to New York, next fortnight. These two tried to fly over last year...
Meanwhile, Designer Sikorsky hastened work on a new plane for Pilot Fonck; obtained from the U. S. Labor Department extensions of stay for two of his immigrant Russian wing-makers...
...learned from a prosaic, weatherbeaten man on crutches who came ashore. He was Lieut. James H. Doolittle, U.S.A., test pilot of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio). Having had no vacation for nine years, he had taken one last May, going down to Chile with a 175-m. p. h. pursuit plane to be first U. S. flyer across the Andes.- Three days after landing in Santiago, he had fallen from a twelve-foot plane-assembling platform and fretted for a month with two broken femurs in plaster. With neither broken leg yet mended, he had fastened clips on his plaster casts...
Said Pilot Cobham to the press: "It was my idea ... to show the people that there is no stunt about flying. . . . Aviation will make Australia. Instead of farmers being days away from each other they will become a matter of a half-hour or so by plane. ... In Australia it is possible to fly 365 days a year. An English pilot would regard flying in Australia as a rest cure...
...Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran in a voice like "that of a man speaking while trying to stifle a sob." After the service, again the bearers raised the coffin, marched the forty steps required under the Mohammedan ritual...