Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western Air Express, having terminals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City. and soon to establish a line Eastward to Kansas City, provide comfortable limousines for their passengers between the airports and the down town business districts. We also, incidentally, provide a luncheon for the passengers on the plane, all of which is without extra charge. I hope some day you will have the opportunity of riding on the "Model Airline of the World," operated by Western Air Express between San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...plane will refuel twice en route without landing...
...havoc was on paper. Real tragedy swept the clouds when two planes, flying in close formation in the simulated air raid on Columbus, collided at 10,000 ft. Lieut. Edward L. Meadow was chewed to bits by the propeller of a plane piloted by Lieut. A. Fred Solter. Lieut. Solter, parachuting for his life, was carried to a hospital...
...express. The first passenger in a heavier than air machine was one Charles Furnas, employe of the Wright brothers. As everyone knows they were first to fly successfully, at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Dec. 17, 1903. A few months prior, the late great Samuel Pierpoint Langley's plane had failed to take the air successfully at Widewater, Va., on the Potomac...
William Edward Boeing, 47, founded Boeing and soon bought control of Pacific. He entered the transport business to make money out of mail, express and passenger carriage, but more especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident. One day in 1917 he grew angry because his private plane cracked up with him. He decided that he could build better ones. A rich lumber and mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest...