Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct a misstatement in TIME regarding a flight made by Roscoe Turner from Miami to Newark LTiME, Jan. 28]. You state "Turner took off ... ostensibly to break Rickenbacker's . . . record," but that a regular transport plane on the same day flew Miami-New York an hour faster than Turner, implying a race...
...plane Col. Turner flew is the United Air Lines' Boeing he and Clyde Pangborn used in the London-Melbourne race last fall and has a speed of more than 200 miles an hour. FRANK L. CURTIS...
Night flying, more & more popular on U. S. airlines, is a bore. The scenery is blackness, scattered lights, sometimes stars. Not bored, however, were nine passengers on a Washington-Pittsburgh plane of Central Airlines one night last week. Two seats had been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...
...since Hell's Angels, were correctly deemed sufficient to compensate for the lack of anything which might be construed as an original narrative. Best shot: an aviator purporting to be James Cagney, but actually one of the anonymous stunt flyers who helped make Devil Dogs, impudently bouncing his plane over the ambulance that has been sent out to save...
...stay for the stage show, you will see New York's idea of things vaudeville. Not least offensive are the Six Rosebuds, a chorus of circus fat ladies who indulge in amorous by-play with midgets. Cardini, a suave and silent magician, is on a higher plane than these. But it would take more than a clever magician to induce us to sit quietly through the antics and old jokes of Milton Berle, the genial master of ceremonies...