Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Germany the Colonel kept up his chosen work, raised his glass at a dinner of German pursuit plane pilots in this toast, "Here's to bombers, may they fly slower; and here's to pursuit planes, may they fly swifter...
...many lands editorial writers were stimulated by the Lindbergh Message to voice in various ways the thought that if Presidents and Premiers only had the intelligence required to take an airplane engine apart, put it together again, get it started and pilot the plane, they might also be able to make the League of Nations and a good many other things work...
...Majesty King Edward VIII and the heir to the throne, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, flew in the same plane 300 miles last week, inspecting aircraft stations. An accident might thus have instantaneously made charming 10 year-old Princess ("Lilybet") Elizabeth, the Sovereign Queen and Empress...
...prize for the first flight from Elmira to within 25 miles of Times Square, another of $500 for the pilot at the meet who flies highest. Two years ago Pilot du Pont missed the $3,000 prize by five miles. Last week, in his new German sail plane, he set a world's record for distance and return to point of de parture, with a 37-mi. round trip to Watkins Glen...
...Pilot Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., won the $500 Du Pont prize, with an altitude of 6,516 ft., beating the U. S. record set by Richard du Pont in 1934. Pilot Don Stevens had himself towed up to 18,000 ft. by a plane, looped 93 times on the way down, a U. S. record. When the meet was over, gliders and sail planes had soared a total of 321 hours. 1,178 miles in 274 flights. U. S. champion was Chester Decker (295 points). Second with 288 was Richard du Pont, last year's champion...