Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next day up from the crowded field at Mexico City rose Col. Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis. Swallowed in the clouds he missed the monoplane which he had flown to meet. Shouts from the field of "Vivi Senora Leenbaire" as Mrs. Lindbergh stepped out of the Ford plane. She met her wandering boy an hour later at the American Embassy...
...explosion's results: Four of the Langley's men badly injured and a dead man (Chief Carpenter's Mate James Raynor Ailsworth) identifiable only by his Masonic ring; a ragged split in the Langley's plane-landing top deck...
Only the briefest reports from Massachusetts lookouts had told of the plane's earliest progress. The Dawn's regular radio set had evidently expired shortly after starting. The landing field at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, lay white with Christmas snow uncut by the Dawn's landing wheels...
...Davison knows personally. His home sheltered Charles Augustus Lindbergh from the blizzard of publicity which beset him on arrival from Europe. He flies to keep appointments, virtually commuting by air between his place on Long Island and his desk in Washington. The new ship, a Loening plane similar to those in which the Army "Good Will Fliers" circled South America early this year, he will use for personal flying practice; as transport on inspection trips to Army Air Corps posts...
This year the club has branched out. A new plane was purchased in the West and flown to Cambridge from Milwankee. Two air meets have been entered with considerable success, and the Crimson flyers have also had a hand in the New England Flood emergency work...