Word: refueling
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...pilots: Reginald L. Robbins, a Texas farmboy who taught himself to fly several years ago and in 1929 took the endurance record away from the Army's Question Mark (TIME, June 3, 1929); and Harry S. Jones, bachelor sportsman and promoter who had handled the refuelling plane for that endurance flight. Practiced in the tricks of refuelling in midair, Robbins & Jones decided not to try to force an overloaded plane into the air for a straight dash across the ocean. Instead they would take off light, fly inland to Alaska, take fuel over Fairbanks from a nurse ship...
...little less than two hours the Winnie Mae was off for Berlin, landed first at Hanover by mistake. Fatigue was beginning to tell, for Post neglected to refuel there and turned back to Hanover again 15 min. after leaving...
...Janeiro, the Graf Zeppelin will make her first South American landfall, but probably will not stop. She will proceed to Pernambuco, Brazil, where a mooring mast is being erected. To refuel the Graf, no facilities exist at present in South America...
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...