Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of miles a day trying out the same apparatus Miss Earhart uses and recording a mass of data under all sorts of conditions she cannot duplicate. No revolutionary invention will be tested on the hopscotch trip; what aviation may gain are the observations one woman in a large plane can jot down when she is not piloting, navigating, or working the radio. Since Miss Earhart started the flight on every front-page in the country, any accident to the equipment will also be described there, and at one swoop the years of study by the airlanes can be discredited...
...make modern San Franciscans chuckle, General Manager Clarence Lindner dug up a prophetic cartoon of 1889 which fantastically foretold today's San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, the transport planes and air clippers which now roar in and out of the two cities. For readers of 1987, Manager Lindner had another prophetic sketch prepared. This showed the great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket...
...Wantagh, N. Y., jobless Painter Louis Seltman escaped injury when a falling Army weather observation plane, abandoned by its pilot, crashed into his house. Next month a dead limb from a tree fell on Louis Seltman's head, killed...
...Great Britain Walter Hines Page's secretary, a rich young athlete named Harold Fowler, resigned to go to War as a flyer. By the Armistice, Col. Harold Fowler had been wounded four times, shot down seven times, decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal. He celebrated by flying his plane under the Arc de Triomphe. Next time Harold Fowler popped into the news was in 1927 when he became the first U. S. citizen to ride in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. He was thrown twice. Next year he was thrown again. Other activities have been diplomacy, traveling...
...travelers whom he encountered in the fastnesses of the MacPherson Range, 60 mi. south of Brisbane. The travelers, named Binstead and Proud, were the only survivors of one of the most shocking crashes in Australia's air history. Near them was the charred wreckage of the plane containing the bodies of its two pilots and two other passengers. Farther away lay the corpse of another passenger who had plunged to his death off a cliff while trying to find help in the dark. Travelers Binstead and Proud, after eight days without food, had given up hope of being found...