Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formidable Costes record: shot down 13 enemy fighters during the War; served conspicuously in other air branches -artillery fire regulation, reconnoitering, day & night bombardment; given the Legion of Honor after his sixth plane victory; made an officer of the Legion and voted the U. S. Distinguished Flying Cross (with Joseph Lebrix) in 1928 for a globe-circling adventure which took them from Paris to St. Louis (Africa), to Port Natal (Brazil), all over South America, thence to New Orleans, Washington, San Francisco, then by boat to Tokyo, by air to China, Indo-China, Calcutta, Karachi, Aleppo, Syria, Athens, Marseilles...
...himself. Pilot was Capt. Harry A. Dinger, "who had more experience in piloting trimotored transports than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir Kuzma. Capt. Dinger took his party up from Boiling Field. At 300 ft., for causes which none could interpret, the plane veered, dove, crashed. All died. Mrs. Kaynor was out buying Christmas presents for her six children when she heard Springfield newsboys crying her husband...
...Pilots. Martin Jensen, second prize Dole Pacific flyer, and Bartlett Stephens, acting superintendent of the San Francisco Municipal Airport, started a short hop at San Francisco. Down the runway roared their plane. She crow hopped along, got up in the air, fell off on a wing. Jensen, scared, hauled her back to level. He remarked gently on his friend's handling of the ship. Stephens, aggrieved, had been thinking the same thing. Each had thought the other was piloting...
Transcontinental Air Transport announced last week an augmented train plane schedule linking Manhattan with San Francisco. Transcontinental passengers now transfer at Los Angeles (Glendale Terminal Airport) and for $10 extra reach San Francisco about three hours later. Present (reduced) net charges for transcontinental air rail travel (New York to Los Angeles, over the Maddux Line which recently merged with T. A. T.) are: T. A. T., $267.43; Western Air Express, $211.20; Universal Air Lines System...
...Montevideo, Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long the flyers' 1,400 gallons of gas, 50 gallons of oil, would keep them up, figured on 50 hours. At last, many hours behind schedule, the plane crashed near Maracuja, Rio do Norte, Brazil. Both flyers were slightly injured, the plane wrecked...