Word: round-the-world
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...Distance covered: 15,474 mi.; flying time, 4 days, 10 hr. Previous round-the-world record was the Graf Zeppelin's 21 days 7 hr. 34 min. Her distance...
...they ended a story already read and reread by every newsreader in the land. Any urchin in the crowd of 10,000 that milled about the field could have told how the plane had left Solomon Beach near Nome two days before on the last laps of its round-the-world flight (TiME, July 6); how Navigator Harold Gatty had miraculously escaped serious injury when the propeller kicked him; how one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post had whipped the plane off a concrete avenue and out of Edmonton, Canada, that morning, re-fuelled at Cleveland less than four hours ago. Only...
...jury believed Mr. Denison's trunk story, acquitted him in an hour. Solemnly he shook hands all round, announced that he would start a round-the-world trip within a week...
...Bernt Balchen, who flew Richard Evelyn Byrd across the Atlantic and over the South Pole, took a job last week as pilot on the Ludington Line's plane-every-hour service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Pilot Balchen & backers are planning a round-the-world flight...
Tire Trouble. John Henry Mears, theatrical producer; racing globetrotter, took off from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., in a Lockheed monoplane to beat the Graf Zeppelin's round-the-world time of 21 days. With pilot Henry J. Brown and a terrier mascot he reached Harbor Grace, N. F., tried to take off before dawn on a bumpy field, cracked up when a tire blew...