Word: ski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conditions. New Canadian airports have good runways. They do not need them, for the country is spangled with lakes and striped with rivers-splendid sites in summer for pontoon-equipped planes, for ski-equipped ones in winter...
...First annual American ski championship contest, sponsored by the American Ski Association at the Detroit Ski Club...
...very broad opportunity for testing flying equipment in zero temperatures" the ist Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps long planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then one of the transport planes crunched through the ice on Lake St. Clair in five feet...
...First annual American ski championship contest, sponsored by the newly organized American Ski Association, at the Detroit Ski Club...