Word: pulham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While her Norwegian and American commanders progressed in triumph to Tromso and took ship, with supplies of men, materials and hydrogen gas, to meet her at Spitzbergen, the dirigible Norge obeyed the commands of her Italian chief, Colonel Nobile, hurrying over Europe by day and night. Her landing at Pulham Field, England, was accomplished after much maneuvering. Various supercargoes were discharged and she left, the evening after arriving, for Oslo. Grey morning found her feeling her way along the Danish coast. Soon after noon she dipped to the royal palace at Oslo, to Explorer Amundsen's villa...
...Captain Zackery Lansdowne, commander of the Shenandoah, submitted plans to his chief, Secretary Wilbur of the Navy, showing how the big dirigible could fly to the Pole via the mooring-mast at Pulham, England, and her own mast-ship Patoka, which could be sent ahead to Spitzbergen. No intimation came from Washington that this was intended, or would be received, as anything more than a plan...
...British airship R-33, sister ship of the famous K34 which crossed the Atlantic in 1920, repeated, last week, the feat of the U. S. airship Shenandoah, which, last year, went on an unintentional voyage (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The R33 was moored to the mast at Pulham airdrome in Norfolk, England, during one of the worst gales known to the windswept English coast. Under the terrific pull of a 50-mile-an-hour wind, she tore away the arm of the mooring mast. The damage inflicted was even worse than in the case of the, Shenandoah. The first...