Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China's first air heroes: Lieutenant Loi Chong, 23, credited with shooting down four Japanese light bombers in one morning; Lieutenant Wong Sun-sui, age unknown, credited with shooting down two twin-motored bombers near Nanking. Both men were trained in the U. S., used U. S.-built planes. Said Lieutenant Wong: ''American-made pursuit planes can easily outrun Japanese bombers. Shooting them down is comparatively easy because Japanese pilots seem to be mesmerized as soon as they find an attacking plane behind them." Added General...
Instead of the 22 entries for the original transatlantic race, only 13 planes from three countries appeared at Istres. Eight were multi-motored bombers from Italy, four were French and the other was a DeHavilland Comet which got in from England just before the deadline. Weather was perfect and for once a long-distance air race was held without fatalities. But if all four French planes had crashed in flames, gloom in Paris after the race could have been no worse, for all the honors went to Italy, which took the first three places and the prize money...
...third Italian ship, only half-hour behind, was none other than Lieutenant Bruno Mussolini, thickset second son of Il Duce. On his account, the crowds at Le Bourget had all been carefully frisked by police before admission. With scrupulous politeness and notable lack of enthusiasm, they applauded as each plane landed. That night the Paris press gave Pierre Cot his comeuppance, clamored for his resignation...
...from Port Washington, few minutes after the German plane had taxied to the ramp, droned the Pan American Clipper, off for England via Bermuda and the Azores. Having crossed the Atlantic by the northern route four times with precision, Captain Harold E. Gray and his pioneering crew were making the first test of the Southern route...
...above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket. There was a spurt of flame from one motor, then silence...