Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane circling above the Gettysburg airport, Aviator Paul Charles climbed under the wings, lashed a broken landing gear, returned to guide the machine safely to earth. At 21, Charles is said to be the youngest licensed commercial pilot...
Enthused, confident, Her Grace ordered an immediate start for India. The plane rose heavily, snapped four telegraph wires, winged its way to Sofia, Aleppo...
...Naselai Beach. It was a boat, for it had come across the water to Fiji, bearing men. But they had never seen a boat which flew in the air like a bird. The inspiration came suddenly. "Waqavuka" (bird-boat) they cried, and their brown hands fluttered about the plane and the four men who stood beside...
...Pacific. Before them lay "Aussie"*and safety and, for two of them, secure places in the list of illustrious Australian airmen. They thought of Wilkins, warming his hands after spanning the roof of the world (TIME, April 30); they thought of Bert Hinkler, lone voyager in an incredibly tiny plane (TIME, March 5); they thought back to Sir Ross Smith, pioneer of Australian aviation, who had flown 11,500 miles from England to Australia in 1919. A short hop of 1,795 miles, and they, too, would bring new honors to "Aussie," land of aviators...
Janey's insistence is cut short by the arrival of her Anglo-Saxon swains, who defy all manner of peril and whisk her off in the very plane that brought her. Her ingratitude for their bravery displays itself in scenes and sorrowings, until her hero appears in the night, tracked to her very window by posses of police...