Word: take-off
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First a heavy fog. "white darkness," delayed the Lindberghs' take-off from Petropavlovsk for the dangerous 897-mile hop over the Kurile Islands to Nemuro (pop. 5,000) at the northwest extremity of Hokkaido. While the Lindberghs waited, Nemuro made ready for the ceremony which was to herald their arrival. An influx of newshawks, cameramen and inquisitive Japanese left only two hotel rooms vacant in the town. These were reserved for the flyers. Volunteers from the Young Men's Christian Association planned to stay up, all night if need be, till the plane was reported passing Yetorofu Island...
...minutes after the take-off minor motor trouble developed. The plane paused for two hours at Avatcha Bay while Col. Lindbergh made repairs, took off again for Nemuro. This time the plane stayed up for half the distance to Nemuro when a radio message from Anne Lindbergh was picked up by the Ochishi radio station. It said: "Unknown where we are because of fog" and asked what was the best place to come down. "Muroton Bay'' (where Japanese Aviator Seiji Yoshihara recently cached gasoline while trying to fly to the U.S.) was the answer. The Lindberghs looped back...
...offered Gatty a Russian cigaret, but he was still smoking from a pack bought in New York, "day before yesterday." There was a nine-course dinner at the Grand Hotel, champagne spurned again by the flyers. Two hours rest, then out to the airport soon after midnight. Here the take-off was delayed because Russian mechanics, confusing gallons and litres, had overloaded the plane, and the excess fuel had to be siphoned out. It was 5 a. m. when the Winnie Mae roared into the East again. Still clipping off 150 m.p. it fol- lowed the Trans-Sib over...
...brakes either one for ground-steering. Because the engine and propeller are far separated from the cabin, it is claimed that noise in flight is no greater, to the occupants, than that of an automobile going 60 m. p. h. over smooth roads. The claim is it will take-off in 35 ft., can use average boulevards as landing fields...
...Along a take-off level notched into the side of an Alpine peak near the Engadine Valley, Chiogna, crack skiman of Switzerland, moved out onto the run. It dropped away under his feet so sharply that watchers behind him could not see the whole course; part of it seemed almost perpendicular. On the run the packed icy snow had just enough surface to give Chiogna steering purchase as he shot downward on his special skis-the skis of a fairytale, fantastically long and heavy. Five electric control stations shunted into a 150-metre circuit measured his time. On the long...