Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian friend last week gave the press an account of Dr. Hanfstaengl's abrupt departure from Germany: He got a telephone call asking him to go to Spam as a special courier of Hitler, hurried to the waiting plane. At Leipzig, where the plane halted, he became definitely uneasy when a group of Hitler special guards climbed into the ship. At this point Putzy opened a letter just handed to him. It said that since he thought so little of General Franco and so much of the Red Government in Spain he was to receive an opportunity to meet...
...when two men in officer's uniforms emerged from the officers' mess at Mosul airport. Taking seats on a bench overlooking the field they watched the light dim in the west. One of the two was Irak's dictator, General Bakri Sidki Pasha, waiting for a plane to fly to Turkey to witness Turkish army maneuvers. The other was his righthandman, Major Mohamed Ali Jawdat, commander of Irak's air force. In the gathering darkness their cigarets glowed peacefully. A soldier sidled near and suddenly appeared from the shadows, revolver in hand. General Sidki...
Wellesley-educated Mme Chiang is not only one of the most potent political figures in the Orient, but the particular patron of Chinese aviation. She is reputed to O. K. the purchase of every plane personally. Quick to come to the defense of her aviators' shocking bad marksmanship she telegraphed in reply...
...transpolar flight to Moscow and who was once rescued in Siberia by Flyer Levanevsky, dashed non-stop to Fairbanks to return the favor in his new Lockheed Electra. Spurring the search, the Army Signal Corps station in Anchorage announced the receipt of a weak radio message from the grounded plane: "No bearings . . . having trouble with . . . wave band...
...plane was a Douglas DC2 making its regular run from Chicago to Miami. With veteran Captain Stuart G. Dietz, 33, at the controls it settled to the airport at Daytona Beach, Fla. shortly after 4 a. m. Daytona Beach has been an Eastern Air stop only since May but Captain Dietz was completely familiar with the field. Presently, with co-pilot beside him, steward and six passengers strapped in their seats in the cabin, Captain Dietz taxied to the northern end of the 3,700-ft. NW/SE runway, gave his two motors a final revving, hurtled into...