Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front had placed my haystack in direct line of rebel fire. Bullets sang overhead, pished into the haystack, and swished through the corn. It was impossible to move. Then I thought of TIME. For six hours, with an occasional break to survey fighting, fix my glasses on a bombing plane, or consult the French radio operator established behind the nearby farmhouse, I absorbed the Aug. 24 issue, including all ads (actual cover-to-cover reading time about three hours). Just as I was reading Medicine an airplane bomb landed in the corn field. Twice bullets cut our lines. Twice...
This week that intrepid transatlantic exhibitionist, Crooner Harry Richman, and his pilot. Dick Merrill, headed back across the ocean from England to the U. S., ran out of gas over Newfoundland, plopped into a bog with slight damages to plane and flyers. Few days before, two really important transatlantic flights had been accomplished with much more efficiency and much less ballyhoo by Germany's Lufthansa...
...Dornier all-metal flying boats, the Aeolus and Zephir. High-winged monoplanes with sponsons, powered by two Junkers Diesel engines in tandem on the wing-top, they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards the flight there from Germany as child's play. The planes are catapulted so they might take off with a greater load than they could lift...
Meantime, Favorite Howard took off from Wichita, was speeding over a Navajo reservation in New Mexico when Mister Mulligan's gas line broke. Out of control, the little white plane plummeted to the ground. Drawn by the crash, a number of Navajos ran up, edged uneasily about, not daring to approach the crumpled wreck-for superstitious reasons. After four hours one of them went for white rescuers. They found Maxine Howard with both legs broken, her husband with fractures of both legs, an arm and a brain concussion. Hospitalized, she soon gained strength while he lay close to death...
...instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice almost killed himself in crashes. Last week, flying a tiny blue Caudron-Renault in which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked off with the preliminary Greve Trophy Race. This victory made Detroyat the overwhelming favorite, though no foreign flyer hadwever i won the Thompson Trophy before. This thought did not bother the burly Frenchman. Without the slightest trouble, he drummed into the lead...