Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flowed yellow at the feasts given in his honor. A few days later he tried again, this time for the record for 500 kilometers in closed circuit, but trouble, first with landing gear, later with oil circulation, forced him to give up the attempt, and now he and his plane have returned to Paris. But he will return again soon for another try and he may succeed...
...days, perhaps before this letter reaches you, Rossi and Codos will take off for a nonstop flight to Rio, in their five-year-old plane, with an engine which has already flown 1,000 hours, and if they too succeed, then there will be great rejoicing chez Isnardon, and the wings of France will once more be lifted toward the stars...
Chez Isnardon there was rejoicing, but only because Rossi and Codos landed safely in the Cape Verde Islands when their plane's oil system failed...
...More than 75 Negro doctors and engineers, trained in American colleges, have settled in Abyssinia since I cut the path," said Col. Julian. "To the news of Italy's aggression my instinctive reaction was at once to take off for Abyssinia in my black Bellanca plane (see cut). However, I restrained my ardor whilst assembling some combat and bombing equipment which I will take with me by ship to Aden, thence flying the planes to Addis Ababa...
Last week Pilot Joe Kirton, his resignation in, got ready to make his last flight for Hillman Saloon Coaches & Airways Co. (London-Paris). Presently two girls who had been pacing back & forth at Stapleford Airdrome boarded his plane. They sucked nervously at cigarets. Said one: "Darling, wouldn't John have loved to be with us?" The two passengers had tickets for all six seats in the plane, explained that four friends were expected. The friends never arrived. After the take-off the girls complained of a draught, asked Pilot Kirton to close the door between cockpit and cabin...