Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To a Dr. & Mrs. M. D. Evans; a girl child; in a Fokker monoplane some 1,200 ft. above Miami. In the plane, beside the parents and the first aerial-born baby, were two pilots, two nurses, two attendants, the grandmother...
...Pirate Plane. On the Black Sea a pirate ship is using a seaplane to locate prey. Thus was the Greek steamer Euripides spotted last week and robbed...
Land of the Soviets, Russian world flying plane, reached Detroit last week with its four operators. They started, on their second attempt, from Moscow Aug. 23, flew across Siberia to the Aleutian Islands (U. S.), to the Alaskan mainland, down the Pacific Coast to Seattle, to San Francisco, then overland to Chicago, Detroit...
...Tailless Plane. A triangular shaped "stork" plane, lacking conventional tail structure, flew 78 m.p.h. with a 8-h.p. motor, at Berlin. Its constructor, Alexander Lippisch, thus approximated the flying goal of an all-wing ship...
...hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane for a thorough inspection of European air activities...