Word: planed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monster silvery airplane with "Sikorsky-New York (crossed flags) Paris" painted on her engine gondolas and fuselage. It was on the plains of Westbury and perhaps a thousand people stood about, shivering in overcoats. The morning was not so chilly, but they were excited. In a, few minutes this plane would rush down a long, specially built dirt runaway, lift into the air, skim, climb, circle and head off for the Atlantic, Newfoundland, Ireland, Paris...
...everyone knows, eight and one-half round-the-world flights or 72 trips across the Atlantic is the equivalent of 216,000 miles. This is the distance which the Torpedo and Bombing Plane Squadron No. 1 of the Navy scouting fleet has flown in less than a year without a single forced landing...
...Army beat the Navy in the Liberty Engine Builders' trophy race, Lieut. Orville L. Stephens coming home first in a Curtiss Falcon observation plane after averaging 142.6 m.p.h. for a dozen laps of a 12-mile course. Later the Navy, in the person of Lieut. C. T. Cuddihy, roared back, to win from the Army the Kansas City Rotary Club trophy, over a 120-mi. closed course in a Boeing FB-3, the new type of pursuit plane developed for use as a fighting ship flown from the plane-carriers Lexington and Saratoga (TIME, Aug. 9). The Liberty Bell...
...Havana, one Angel Arango pleaded and pleaded with air pilots to take him aloft. He wanted to step off the wing of a plane and drop into the Gulf of Mexico from an altitude sufficient to test a combination parachute and buoyant belt he had invented. Pilots old and pilots young refused to budge. To them the device did not look practical. Last week, however, Senor Arango found his man, clambered joyfully into a cockpit, waved goodbye to watching thousands, crept out on the plane's wing tip at 3,000 feet, stepped backwards into empty air. The parachute...
Engineer William B. Stout, Henry Ford's air chief (TIME, Aug. 9) predicted: "Airplanes will be made so safe and at such a reasonable cost during the next five years, that the average man who owns an automobile will be able to buy a plane. . . . The man on the ground has an idea that airplane riding will make him sick and be too thrilling. As a matter of fact there is not as much 'kick' in flying as there is in fast automobile riding...