Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a flying standpoint I personally believe he is not at all outstanding, even giving him credit for the hop to Paris, which was foolish when you consider that the plane he used is condemned by the Department of Commerce as unsafe...
...Lindbergh's N. Y.-Paris plane was never condemned by the Department of Commerce as unsafe. It was barred from commercial use only because it held an experimental license. About one hundred sister ships (Ryan Brougham monoplanes) are still in service throughout the land...
...Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio, 50 mi. south of the Chicago-Cleveland airway, heard a plane roar over his roof. He heard a motor cut off. He heard a crash...
...noon sun in a grey sky found Lieut. Howard M. McCoy piloting an observation plane with 211 Ib. of mail in her belly from Newark to Cleveland. Suddenly something went wrong with the lubrication. The motor burned out and Lieut. McCoy was forced down into a cow pasture at Dishtown, Pa. He slung the 211 Ib. of mail on his back, slogged two miles through the snow into Woodland, where he handed his mail over to the postmistress to be forwarded by train...
...turn on the lights. Lieut. Dietz pushed on to Crisfield, where his ship hit a tree and a telephone pole trying to land. The motor was thrown free and so was Lieut. Dietz. His skull was fractured, but he managed to shout: "Don't bother anything in the plane! Take care of the mail...