Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army plane, chased by other Soviet craft and fired at by Soviet frontier guards, skimmed across the border and came down last week in southern Estonia. Out climbed Soviet Lieutenants Vladimir Umishevsky and Nikolai Gurjev, ashen-faced. After a three-hour flight from Luga, south of Leningrad, their gasoline was exhausted and they had just got across the frontier. They told that Joseph Stalin was purging the Red Air Force, that hundreds of Soviet military pilots had mysteriously vanished in Russia, that they had chosen the desperate risk of flight...
...board-three B. A. C. men headed by Miller C. Foster of the Department of Commerce, and Montana Aeronautics Commissioner Fred B. Sheriff -issued a preliminary report. Northwest's veteran pilot, Nick Mamer, was completely exonerated. Helpless at the controls after part of the tail structure of his plane "fluttered" off, Pilot Mamer could do nothing but await death as his ship plunged to the ground...
...punitive. They guessed that the Department of Commerce, up to its ears in criticism for having approved the fatal ship, would quickly restore Northwest's license, look for another goat. Said Senator Copeland, accident-conscious chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee: "Whether or not the structure of the plane was properly planned is the question and the embarrassing thing is that the plane was approved by the Department...
Five weeks ago Captain Mario Stoppani, Italian Royal Air Force ace, flew 4,230 miles from Cadiz, Spain to Caravellas, Brazil, breaking the previous non-stop distance record for seaplanes (3,435 miles). Fortnight later three other Italian planes, one of them piloted by Benito Mussolini's son, Bruno, emulated his example by hopping to Brazil. Last week Stoppani set out to fly back. Two hours from the coast of Brazil one of his motors failed, he turned back, dumped gasoline, promptly caught fire. He and four companions jumped, landed in a sea covered with flaming gasoline. When...
...sunk by the knitting ice pack, he spectacularly transferred 71 persons from the ship to an ice floe, whence they were spectacularly rescued by airplane. Last week, as Papanin's floe drifted toward Jan Mayen Island, jungle-bearded Professor Schmidt prepared to lead a rescue party. Whether planes could land in the ice-choked water beside the floe was problematical, so three icebreaker ships were also ordered to accompany the plane...