Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down upon the glassy harbor of Port Washington, L. I. settled a four-motored Lufthansa seaplane with swastikas on her tail, Nordmeer in large letters on her flank. Considerably larger than the two twin-motored German flying boats which crossed the Atlantic several times last summer (TIME, Sept. 21), she had been catapulted from the Azores, made the 2,392 miles in 16 hr. 28 min. without incident...
...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...
...from Port Washington three days later climbed the high-sided Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia for her sixth Atlantic crossing via Newfoundland and Ireland. Including a stop at Montreal, she got to her base at Foynes, Ireland in 20 hr. 27 min. flying time, just as her sister ship Cambria was getting set to reverse...
These nonchalant flights last week were so long expected and so perfectly executed that they caused no more of a ripple in the U. S. press than they had aroused in Port Washington's harbor. What did cause headlines last week was the final laying of transatlantic rumors which have tickled U. S. aviators' ears for months...
...Richardson, 12, of Detroit and John Sigmans, 12, of Bethlehem, Pa., who came in third, each won a Chevrolet coach which they are too young legally to operate. Coaster Ballard then went on to win another silver trophy by defeating the foreign champion, 16-year-old Danie Wege of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in the international event. His record heat...