Word: squall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monster. She has six 12-cylinder, 890 h.p., water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engines, has 161-ft. wing spread-wider than any U. S. air-plane-but she cruises at only 142 m.p.h. Two years ago, she was anchored in Pensacola Bay while her crew was ashore, capsized during a squall, was salvaged with difficulty, flown home in chagrin...
...speed to the point where he crashed, that he apparently had perfect confidence he was on his course. His altitude was 10,000 feet, the approved height on his normal course. Two trappers who were nearby at the time of the accident, reported a sudden, violent wind and snow squall. United Air Lines quickly issued a report blaming weather conditions for rendering "the radio inoperative...
Albert used to do, to help Belgium's Cabinet weather political squalls. The squall into which His Majesty plunged last week was easily the most ominous to date...
...Guinea, where rich, 30-year-old Explorer Archbold plans to fly via Pan American's bases across the Pacific, he hopes to be able to land on and take off from a lake 11,000 ft. high. Last year in New Guinea a smaller plane upset in a squall at Port Moresboy. In memory of the episode, the new plane has been named Cuba-a native word for sudden squall...
Narrowest escape from disaster was at anchor off the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, seawall when the Joseph Conrad was driven aground by a squall on New Year's Eve, smashed against a pier as the salvage tugs were moving her off. A $10,000 repair bill came near grounding the expedition then & there. "Ports," warns Author Villiers, "are bad places for ships and men." Luck was with them in the only other mishap of the voyage when they grounded on a coral reef in the South Seas...