Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief problem was how to fly there. He had serviced many a plane but had never piloted one. Mechanic Eshleman forthwith took eight hours' flying instruction, four hours' solo...
Latest of such stories is The Wings of the Morning, a 500-page fantasy by a 28-year-old Englishman who works for a London printing firm, flies a plane, likes good food and wine, fast horses and cars. His first published novel, The Wings of the Morning, tells of a medical genius who becomes equally famed as a best-selling satirist. When his young wife, a beautiful Communist, is killed in an accident, the doctor retires snarling to a cottage, makes friends with a philosopher-cop, gets mixed up in the strange suicide of an egomaniac artist, who personifies...
When small, smiling Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia set his racing plane down fast but safely at Floyd Bennett Field three weeks ago, his friends, relatives and admirers waiting there cheered him wildly. They were glad because their Pancho had set a new non-stop record for the Mexico City-New York City flight. And they were glad for another reason. Pancho's five-year-old plane had a bad history of forced landings and unfinished races, was supposed to be jinxed. Pancho had flouted the jinx...
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...Greensburg, Pa. swimming hole two boys goggled at a falling plane. While they stared, it fell on them, killed one, badly injured the other...