Word: refuelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pilot. Shortly after he flew as one of the daring "Three Musketeers" of the Air Corps at Rockwell Field, Calif. First he saw Musketeer "Willie" Williams land on his back. A month later Musketeer W. L. Cornelius died in a mid-air collision. Lieut. Woodring carried on, helped refuel the Army's famed Question Mark endurance plane; flew from Vancouver to New York in record time with a copy of Japan's ratification of the London Naval Treaty (1930). Another officer flying with a duplicate copy crashed in a Wyoming blizzard...
...again last week was China's anti-Japanese boycott, cause of the much deplored Japanese invasion of Shanghai. On pain of a general strike, the Chinese Seamen & Pilots' Association ordered Chinese shipowners to refuse to refuel with Japanese coal. In Shanghai two new boycott clubs were formed, known respectively as The Purified Heart & Hot Blood Corps for the Extermination of Traitors, and The Blood & Soul Society...
...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...
There was beautiful precision to the first stage of the flight. The Fort Worth climbed out of Seattle's Boeing Field before dawn, kept rendezvous with her trimotored Ford refuel plane over Fairbanks that evening only 30 min. behind time. Throttled down to comparatively slow speeds the planes flew together while the Fort Worth drained 200 gal. from her nurse above. Then both flew on to Nome, made contact again in a brisk wind. A load of 435 gal. was needed to complete the flight. After taking 300 gal. the Fort Worth became unmanageable in the wind. Robbins & Jones...
...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...