Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Week"-Donald Wills Douglas-was picked up by the writer beside the badly burned wreckage of a United Air Lines, Douglas-built "Mainliner" which crashed near Cleveland the night of May 24 with a loss of ten lives. This seems to me a rather extraordinary coincidence-a Douglas-built plane, TIME'S feature article on Douglas and the fact that a copy of TIME rode to disaster with this ill-fated group...
...administration. Somewhere east of Allahabad, India, he disappeared. Eighteen months later, when he was almost forgotten, a wheel and a piece of undercarriage were found on the shore of tropical Aye Island, off the Burma coast. Photographs of the wheel were sent to Lockheed Aircraft Corp., makers of the plane. Last week Lockheed definitely identified the ship it came from as the Lady Southern Cross. Rangoon botanists, after examining weeds clinging to the wreckage, guessed that Sir Charles and his Lady Southern Cross lie in 15 fathoms of sea water close...
...Liner in a Cleveland gulch last week, this much was known: at 11:07 p.m., the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport) radioed Cleveland: SHIP OVER PARKMAN. FOUR THOUSAND FEET ALTITUDE. EVERYTHING O.K. A few minutes later Radio Operator James C. Wynne, in the Cleveland Airport control tower, saw the plane and prepared to "talk" Pilot James Brandon in to a landing. Suddenly the DST disappeared...
What happened could only be pieced together from what was left of the plane after it crashed and burned, and what was left of the truth when eyewitnesses had had time to use their imaginations. Said an authoritative non-witness, William A. Patterson, president of United: "Neither of the two engines was in operation at the moment of impact. This is the first time in our experience of flying 75,000,000 miles with twin engine airplanes that we have had what appears to be simultaneous power failure of both engines...
...Whisenhunt received a telegram saying that his wife was near death in a Kansas City hospital. Leaving a daughter seriously ill with whooping cough, he flew to Kansas City, found his wife better. He received a message that his daughter was worse. He flew back. Alighting from his plane at Oklahoma City he sprained an ankle. He limped to a phone, learned that his daughter was rallying, his wife slipping. So Mr. Whisenhunt flew back to Kansas City. There Mr. Whisenhunt himself developed, in quick succession, a toothache, ptomaine poisoning, blood-poisoning. At week's end wife and daughter...