Word: samishiro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than that day's World Series game. Even the "hardluck flyers," Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn, flyers of two oceans, seemed to sense an anticlimax when they skidded their wheelless Bellanca monoplane into the airport at Wenatchee, Wash., 41 hr. after taking off from Samishiro Beach, 280 mi. north of Tokyo. Their troubles on the flight had been less than their troubles with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 28, et ante). Yet their flight, 4,500 mi., was one of the greatest long distance flights accomplished. They had crossed the last...
Soon after they left Samishiro Herndon cut a wire which let the plane's landing gear drop into the sea, reducing the load by 300 Ib. and the head resistance by 17%. It meant that wherever they came down they would have to land the plane on its belly...
Heads were sagely wagged on both sides of the Pacific Ocean last week when it became evident that Pilots Don Moyle and Cecil A. Allen had failed in their attempt to fly from Samishiro Beach, Japan to Seattle. Many & many a prophet could say "I told you so." The orange monoplane was sighted through the rain by a steamer no mi. from the starting point. It was not seen again. Following night the captain of another steamer off the coast of Alaska thought he heard a plane overhead, but there was no further clue. Weather was bad. Neither Moyle...
Bromley's Luck (cont.). In the fourth plane built for the purpose, Lieut. Harold Bromley & Navigator Harold Gatty finally took off last week from Samishiro Beach, Aomori Prefecture, Japan for a nonstop flight to Tacoma, Wash. Twenty-five hours later they were down again at Shiriyazaki, about 40 mi. from the starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust...
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