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Northeast Passage (Cont'd). Pilot Parker ("Shorty") Cramer and Radioman Oliver Pacquette had just started the motor of their Bellanca seaplane and were taxiing across the little harbor of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, when a messenger came running down the waterfront, waving a yellow paper. It was a warning of...
From Berlin the Graf resumed flight (her 202nd) to Leningrad, thence pushed on toward the island of Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land, where philatelists' mail was to be exchanged with the Russian icebreaker Malygin. Unless further unknown land were sighted, Dr. Eckener did not intend to push farther...
¶Flying mail between Nanking and Ber lin, a plane and two pilots of Eurasia Corp. were forced down in a storm last fortnight. Another of the company's planes flew out to search, sighted the missing craft in the Mongolian desert. But when the rescuers glided low for a...
It was late afternoon when Pilot Hoiriis, barely able to hold the controls after 32 hours in the air, sighted an airport and landed-Krefeld, in Germany near the Holland frontier. He tumbled out of the plane and dozed where he lay while Hillig bustled to a telephone, called Copenhagen...
On her knees (a few months before Columbus sighted America) pious Queen Isabella implored the blessing of Heaven for a royal edict by which King Ferdinand: 1) banished all Jews and other heretics from Spain; 2) decreed that his remaining subjects must actively practice the Catholic religion.