Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feared capable of any madness, and Realmleader Hitler's head is rated hot. On orders from French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, himself a wartime aviator, the General Staff order was suspended and "for the present" French frontier guards will write down a description of each German peeping plane which will then be solemnly protested by French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet at Berlin while Nazis laugh up their brown sleeves...
...Zion, Ill. a mechanic named Carl Swanson built a homemade plane of washing machine parts, baling wire, canvas, door hinges, equipped it with a motorcycle engine, took it up for a test-flight last week. Pilot Swanson had never had a flying lesson. The flight ended after three minutes. His condition: serious...
...London last week was exhibited a midget plane known as the Drone: 16-h.p. motorcycle engine, cruises 50 mi. on a gallon of fuel, lands at 25 m.p.h., flown without dual instruction. Price...
Taking six passengers from Washington to Detroit in a trimotored Ford of Central Airlines, he got as far as Hancock, Md. when the left outboard motor exploded, tore loose from its moorings, crashed through the landing gear and plunged earthward. The other two motors sputtered, the plane vibrated heavily, all lights went out. Pilot Carmichael stuck a flashlight out the window, calmly took stock of the situation...
There is a strange air about these discussions; they do not attack social problems in general; they are interested only in the predicament in which young men of a certain class suddenly and bewilderingly find themselves. The authors do not endeavour to theorize on a plane of universality; whatever else they may be, they are conspicuously honest, and understand that their problem is simply to ascertain where, if anywhere at all, they and men like them belong...