Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Milwaukee, Wis. JOHN MULLER In my letter praising you for not putting Lindbergh's picture on your cover [TiME, June 3], I said: "Who doubts that the ordinary German commercial aircraft companies could not better Lindbergh's feat with a stock plane...
...prophecy has been fulfilled! For I have just read in TIME that a German Junker's plane has smashed all endurance records by remaining in the air over 52 hours. The best Lindbergh ever did was 33 hours! Therefore it is a foregone conclusion that one or more Junker's planes will come gliding into New York with no fuss or fiddling. . . . JOHN MULLER Milwaukee...
Bruce Armstrong (Richard Arlen) after a fall disentangles himself from his battered machine, forced down behind the enemy lines. He steals an enemy plane, wings his way toward his own camp. Meanwhile, his true friend, John Powell (Charles Rogers), hearing that Bruce has been shot down by the Germans, sallies forth, Achilles-like, to demolish Germania for its destruction of his Patroclus. His sputtering machine-gun bespeaks grim, relentless rage. Prussian planes careen downward, leaving swift trails of smoke. Sausage-shaped dirigibles collapse in flames, Armstrong in the German plane flies joyously toward his heroic friend but is not recognized...
...wings did not raise the curious Tremaine monoplane high enough. Trying to clear a cliff, it bumped into it. The fusilage split and the plane fell amid a flaming mass of sparks. When saviors came they found Flyers George W. D. Covell and Richard S. Waggener, Navy lieutenants, cremated...
...spoke Charles H. Babb, Secretary of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association: "Clarke never signed an agreement to postpone his start." The gasoline gauge rose. Flyers and officials crowded around. The plane was wheeled to the runway. Mr. Clarke leaned out, called: "As long as I can't see the start of this race I'll be at the other end to see the finish!" Into the plane jumped Mr. Babb, hatless in business clothes. The motor hummed; the plane took off. A Dole official told the crowd Mr. Clarke had not qualified, had not a chance...