Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Llwyncelyn, near Llandilo. in a desolate part of Carmarthenshire, Wales, last week, three cows had the fright of their lives as a trim blue & silver monoplane suddenly dropped down out of the mist to a bumpy landing beside them. As the cows' owner ran up, out o? the plane stepped a black-jowled, slick-&-kinky-haired man wearing a very dark shirt, a very light necktie. In a voice which sounded as if he had a hot potato in his mouth he demanded: "Is this Scotland...
...special Wright Cyclone engine installed in his smgle-motored $95,000 Vultee monoplane Lady Peace. For a co-pilot he picked Eastern Air Lines' No. 1 Flyer Henry Tindall ("Dick"') Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually has a vial of Surrender or Evening in Paris...
...Everything's lovely,'' grinned Benny Howard, as attendants retanked his speedy little white monoplane Mister Mulligan at Wichita, Kan. one morning last week. With his pretty wife Maxine at his side, his sleek, self-designed plane functioning perfectly, Pilot Howard had reason to be pleased. Competing in the famed Bendix Transcontinental Race from New-York's Floyd Bennett Field to Los Angeles for the opening of the 1936 National Air Races. he already had a commanding lead...
...Race when Pilot Howard flew Mister Mulligan to victory only 24 seconds ahead of Colonel Roscoe Turner. Fortnight ago, Colonel Turner cracked up on the way East for the race, was hospitalized with minor hurts. Flyer S. J. Wittman also had to quit on the way East when his plane caught fire at Cheyenne. Major Alexander P. de Seversky, designer of the world's fastest pursuit ship, was refused permission by the Army to fly it in the Bendix Race. This left Defender Howard with only six planes to beat to Los Angeles...
...stop when the race began. Gar Wrood's Northrop Gamma, with Pilot Joe Jacobsen alone aboard, lost a wing as it was streaking across Kansas. Thrown free, Pilot Jacobsen was knocked unconscious, came to just in time to pull his ripcord, float safely to earth as his plane caught fire, exploded...