Word: pn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aircraft were the Navy's big new, Packard-motored all-steel PN-10 seaplanes, built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard especially for long-range scouting. The flight to Panama had been planned to test their efficiency and was to have been conducted under the supervision of the late Commander John Rodgers, hero of the Navy flight last year (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), in a PN9 from California to Hawaii. After Commander Rodgers' ironic death (TIME, Sept. 6), the leadership had passed to Flight Commander Harold T. Bartlett, son of a Connecticut schoolmaster, seconded by Lieut. Byron J. Connell...
...Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which flew to Hawaii, and a shaving, bored, after it cracked itself in 1836 tolling for John Marshall, from the Liberty Bell...
Almost exactly a yearago (TiME, Sept. 14, 21, 1925), another plane, the PN-9, NO. 1, fell with Commander Rodgers into the Pacific Ocean. San Francisco was 1,700 miles behind; the Hawaiian Islands 400 miles ahead. He and his men had no food, no fuel. They ripped the fabric off the wings and caught a little rainwater in it. Commander Rodgers, with a "silly little still" his mother had made him take along, distilled more drink from seawater. After a week, a submarine found the plane and its scarecrow crew...
...more brilliant than Commander John Rodgers. . . ." There is no Rodgers in the service now. Navy men all, he was the last of them, killed just after he had earned retirement from active service, just as he was planning fresh feats for the Navy to perform in its new PN-10 seaplanes...
...PN-9 No. 3 commended by Lieutenant Allan Snody, did not get very far. Four hundred miles from the California beaches it was forced down by a groken oil pressure line?a surprising, an unfortunate accident. The PN-9 No. 1 would, of course, continue. But the watchers under the Honolulu bulletin board were suddenly amazed to the toy that delighted them stop in its course, its little light...