Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile trip from London to Cape Town solely for amusement-"to see how far I can go." She is taking her time, flies when she feels like it, even when that means (as it did at Marseilles) landing in a gale. She is flying a small plane, a baby Moth, popular with European amateurs. Near her destination are the gold and diamond mines of her husband...
...invariably galloped. She even participated in an "outside loop," most dangerous of all stunts in air, with Capt. E. C. D. Herne as her pilot. (Her safety-strap broke during the loop, but she clung with amazing wit and courage to bracing wires, while her body swung outside the plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs, and one of the tragedies of her life was the death of her favorite borzoi, who jumped thirty feet out of an open window and broke his neck...
Ruth Elder was next, leaving New York Oct. 11 with George Haldeman. They came down in the ocean off the Azores, and were so fortunate as to land beside the Dutch steamship Barendrecht. They were rescued as their plane caught fire and sank...
...flying across Europe in a commercial airliner recently, that Tourist Kern met, as fellow-passenger, Willibald Seypelt, German flier during the War. Enthusiastically, Pilot Seypelt told the U. S. tourist of a tiny plane made in Stuttgart, after the designs by one Hans Klemm. Together they went to Stuttgart, found a little monoplane, with long low-set wings and a short body, the latest idea in European airplane design. Only 22 feet long, it had a wingspread of 43 feet. A 29-h.p. Klemm-Daimler motor furnished the power to carry about 400 pounds...
...Flier Kern. "On New Year's Day we crossed the Alps at the point where Austria, Italy, and Jugoslavia join, making the trip from Udine, Italy, to Vienna on schedule in spite of the fact that we were advised not to undertake it by the Italian authorities. The plane had dual controls and one of its features is that it handles so easily you could land on a dime. As a matter of fact, one time coming down unexpectedly into a bora, as the strong winds of northern Italy are called, we landed within sixty feet. The Yankee Doodle...