Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queer feelings Ed and I had when we found that the same plane dropped a dud 500-lb. bomb in a warehouse not over 150 yards from where our offices are located...
...gadget is a lounge table the top of which, lined with mirrors, lifts to expose several wash basins. Aft and below are mail and cargo holds, quarters for the crew of ten. Its four motors mounted on the wings are Wright "Cyclones," 1,000 h.p. each, which give the plane a range of 4,500 miles carrying a payload of 7,500 Ib. and a maximum speed of 200 m.p.h. At its cruising speed, around 150 m.p.h., the 3,465-mile flight to London would take about 23 hours, leave enough fuel for 1,000 miles more...
...tests Pilot William K. ("Ken") Ebel taxied the 63,000-lb. plane like a speed boat, sprinting, curving, cutting corners through Chesapeake Bay until spectators said they had never seen an airplane so roughly handled. Then for 17 minutes he flew through the air about 100 ft. above the water. In continuous two-way radio conversation with Designer Glenn Luther Martin-who under a company agreement may not fly-Pilot Ebel reported M.O.T.'s performance. "Stable as a brick," grinned Designer Martin...
...Tenor Giovanni Mattinelli caught cold, told Impresario Paul Longone he would be unable to sing Pollione in Norma that night. To three other tenors went Mr. Longone. None of them knew the part. Frantically he telephoned to Manhattan's Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel. Tubby Tenor Jagel caught a plane, flew 700-odd miles to Chicago's Municipal Airport, drove into the Loop behind police escort, trotted perspiring into the opera house, squirmed into a costume, bobbed on stage half-an-hour late, stumbled on a mossy step beside the Druids' oak, lost a shoe...
Instead of welcoming the incoming plane, Prince Ludwig was informed by airway officials that the Belgian Sabena airliner carrying his family had crashed while attempting an emergency landing at fog-covered Ostend airport, killing all. Prostrate, young Prince Ludwig was rushed to the home of friends, Lord & Lady Louis Mountbatten, relatives of King George VI. Additional news from Ostend added the most horrifying note to the tragedy. Searchers poking in the charred wreck of the plane stumbled on the remains of an infant, prematurely delivered when the plane crashed, lying beside the crumpled body of Grand Duchess Cecile...