Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lone Senator carried on as a sort of one-man rump, while seven House members met in what no one was quite sure was rump or regular session. Meantime Governor Murphy got away from it all, cruising on the Potomac with Franklin D. Roosevelt, announcing before boarding a plane for Washington: "I haven't felt better in a long time...
...Exposition offers no French motor cars, but at 15,000 francs or $560 was offered last week the two-cylinder 32 h. p. Taupin monoseater sport plane, built for safe piloting by amateurs and said to be capable of landing at a speed of only 12½ m. p. h. Slightly larger French sport planes, carrying two, yet also geared to private purchasers in the lowest price class are offered at $900 with a ceiling of 18,000 feet, cruising speed...
Last week Rightist air fighters shot down the Leftist plane of Pilot Dahl who descended by parachute unhurt, was conducted to Rightist headquarters at Salamanca and readily told the above story. Its main lines were soon confirmed to Cannes reporters by Mrs. Dahl who begged U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt to intercede for her husband's release...
...geographical distance o. 6,262 miles, not counting detours and backtracks. They were in the air for 62 hr. 17 min. A representative of the National Aeronautic Association shipped their sealed, clock-controlled barograph to Washington. A California fruit inspector fearful of Russian insect pests climbed into the plane, peeked and poked, confiscated a bag of fruit...
...friend Joe Crane, who runs a parachute school at Roosevelt Field, L. I. went up with him in a plane piloted by Russell T. Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. In the cockpit Crane held a long rope tied to the ripcord on Fulen-wider's parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell...