Word: pontooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notice. He got into the plane with them and off they flew. Night found them 60 mi. short of Bermuda over a glassy sea. They descended, floated the swells until dawn, got up again, reached Hamilton Harbor. Their prizes: $1,000 each; publicity for Richfield Oil Co. A sprained pontoon strut prevented their flying home. The significance: when an Armstrong Seadrome (TIME, Oct. 28) is anchored midway, and terminal facilities are improved, and Yancey's weather and course observations are collated, a New York-Bermuda week-end airline may be practicable...
Conditions. New Canadian airports have good runways. They do not need them, for the country is spangled with lakes and striped with rivers-splendid sites in summer for pontoon-equipped planes, for ski-equipped ones in winter...