Word: refueling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Honolulu, Sept. 29.--Dr. Hu Flung Huey, enroute by airplane to America from Manila, landed here late last night to refuel. Dr. Huey is on his way from China to Cambridge, U. S. A., to take up a post as football forecaster for the Harvard CRIMSON, undergraduate daily of Harvard College...
...history can match his 36½ years of Senate service. It was, however, not yet a non-stop record. Senator Warren "took off" on his first Senate flight on Dec. 1, 1890 as one of Wyoming's first pair of Senators. He was obliged to "land to refuel" politically for two years (1893-95) when a deadlock in the Wyoming legislature on selecting a Senator reused a vacancy. The second Warren flight began March 4, 1895 and has continued ever since, with the aged Senator still flying vigorously and giving no sign of coming down into the field...
...plane will refuel twice en route without landing...
There were many races, the most important of which was the non-stop transcontinental derby. Col. Arthur Goebel in a Wasp-motored Lockhead-Vega Yankee Doodle was the first to arrive. But he won no prize because he had stopped once to refuel. Even so his time from New York to Los Angeles was a record; 23 hours, 50 minutes. The other entrants in the race had been forced down. Col. William Thaw seriously injured, had said before starting on the race: "I'm fat, I'll bounce...
Third day. Leaving Munich before the world was awake, they landed at Bejanija airdrome, Belgrade, Jugoslavia, late in the morning. They jumped out to stretch, smoke cigarets, eat luncheon, refuel their bird; planned to hop off almost at once for Constantinople. Reports of strong winds and fog directly in their path over Sofia forced caution. Disappointed, they slept in Belgrade. Schlee praised their plane as "more faithful than a woman...