Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile regularly scheduled plane service between Germany and South America is also to be carried on via the S. S. Westphalen, stationed in the South Atlantic, 820 mi. off British Gambia. To eliminate the mid-ocean stop, test flights will soon be made with flying boats capable of covering the 1,864-mi. with cargo...
Five minutes behind schedule, a trimotored Pan American-Grace plane roared down the field, bounced aloft last week in Lima, Peru, southbound for Santiago. Chile with nine passengers and a crew of three.* About 150 ft. up the port motor cut out. The centre motor sputtered. With flying speed almost gone, the pilot tried to turn back. The big airliner shuddered, dived into the ground. On board was Manuel Trucco, leathery Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., on his way from Washington to Santiago where his wife had died. Ambassador Trucco suffered a broken pelvis. His pretty daughter Grace...
...capitals of Tokyo and Moscow, the great war scare seemed last week to have cooled off. But at the frontiers, the usual crop of "incidents'' made the week as lively as ever. Two Soviet civilian pilots flew a light bombing plane northward from Vladivostok into Manchukuan territory, had trouble and landed. They were arrested by Japanese soldiers who first shooed away some Manchurian ruffians. In Tokyo dispatches, this became a "rescue from bandits" and the aviators had "violated Manchukuan territory...
...that military flyers expect one of their fellows to be killed nearly every week. In fiscal 1932 there were 50 fatali ties; in fiscal 1933, 46. Last month's Army crashes increased the current year's total to only 39. From Mitchel Field, piloting his own observation plane, the General proceeded to Newark Airport, to Cleveland, to Chicago, to St. Louis. He found two-way radios with ranges up to 400 mi. were being installed on Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete...
...conviction without trial of the private companies. 2) Characterized the clause barring from new contracts any company which pressed claims against the Government for annulling old ones, as ",one of the most unjust acts I have ever seen in American legislation." 3) Called "impractical" the provision requiring mail planes to carry Army or Navy men as copilots. 4) Objected to the proposed plane- mileage payment schedule as tending to limit the size of mail-carrying planes. 5) Opposed a permanent subsidy for airlines, but saw need for a temporary one. 6) Parried questions about the ethics of his own companies...