Word: planed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aroused by the loss of the PN9 No. 1 plane flying to Hawaii and the wreck of the Shenandoah, following in short order one on the other, he issued a lengthy statement saying: "I hope that every American will hear it." The War Department certainly did. Exerpts...
...miles. When the ships had accomplished it (as there seemed every likelihood of their doing, what the guard ships, the good weather) they would have beaten the non-stop flight record established last month by the Frenchmen, Arrachard and Le Caitre. In Honolulu, crowds gathered to watch a tiny plane crawl across a bulletin board, nearer, nearer. When it arrived there would be a holiday...
...seaplane been flying on schedule, it should have been about 200 miles off Hawaii when the message was sent. But no plane had passed the U. S. S. Farragut, stationed 420 miles off. The ships Aroostock and Tanager began to search...
Later Corporal John was made the focus of countless lenses. "Click," went expensive focal plane press shutters. "Clickety-whurr," purred Bell and Howell cinema cameras. The noted corporal "squads righted," "squads lefted," and "righted by squads...
Subsequent continued tests at Fort Tilden resulted, after the firing of 180 rounds, in barely missing the towing plane of Lieut. William T. Atkinson, although the target trailed 2100 ft. behind it. Said he, after towing his target ten times across the firing area, "We could see the shells burst high to the right and in front of our plane." Said another flight lieutenant: "We're used to that...