Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily syndication to the courage of the Army pilot who, although new to the job, that day flew mail over the same route through the same blizzard. Five days later, seated in the Waldorf-Astoria, Will Rogers commented to newshawks on the wreck of a United Air Lines plane in Utah: "Grand feller, that Lloyd Anderson. I'd flown with him several times and with that steward...
Last day of the races was marred by two more deaths. Attempting a spot parachute jump, a parachutist fouled his shrouds in the tail surfaces of the plane he was leaving. Plane and tangled jumper plummeted into Lake Pontchartrain. The plane's pilot was also killed. On the bright side, James R. ("Jimmy") Wedell, an adopted favorite son of Louisiana who builds fast little Wedell-Williams ships at Patterson, cleaned up most of the speed prizes without much competition. He won three firsts, did not break the record he holds for land planes (305 m.p.h.), but smashed the record...
...airlines were still smarting from the governmental spanking they had received week before (see p. 26), when last week it looked as if the next trip to the Federal woodshed might be taken by air manufacturers with military contracts. The House Military Affairs Committee was investigating makers of Army planes, while the House Naval Affairs Committee was probing Navy plane builders. Military secrecy confined important testimony to closed session, but what came out at public hearings indicated the course of the investigations...
...Texarkana, said Pilot Hiram Sheridan, when a dazzling blue-white light attracted his attention. "I watched it for a minute or two," reported he, "and realized that it was coming straight at me. I changed my course and put on speed, but it looked like it would strike the plane in spite of all I could do. I banked sharply to the right and at about the same moment the meteor burned out and disappeared. . . . At the time it reached the altitude at which I was flying, it was just a glowing red ball...
...cockney soldier climbs a palm tree to get a look at the enemy. He topples down with a bullet in his heart. The sergeant (Victor McLaglen) draws lots, sends two of his men to scout for help. They come back dead, strapped to the backs of horses. A rescue plane lands on the sand; the pilot is shot as he starts toward the trees. By this time Arab snipers, concealed by the dunes, have picked off all but three of the troop. None of the three can fly but Morelli (Wallace Ford) and the sergeant dismount the plane...