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...airfield, His Majesty spoke the order, "Go into it," over the radio-telephone to a triad of fighters standing alert with propellers idling. When the ships shot aloft and whizzed back over the field in tight formation, he telephoned to their pilots: "That was a beautiful take...
Worst thing wrong with the pictures is that no plane on a carrier would be headed, as Artist Matejko's are, toward the ship's stern, either before take-off or after landing. They invariably land at the stern and take off at the bow in the same direction as the carrier is traveling, thus utilizing the carrier's ground speed to achieve their landing or take-off air speeds...
Rodman Gilder '40 escaped injury today when a wing of the glider he was piloting struck a tree near the take-off on North Sugarloaf to send the machine careening down the hill...
...Army's 200 Douglas bombers of this class crashed last week when an engine failed on the take-off at Langley Field, Va. Killed: an entire crew of nine...
That morning some 1,500 planes were taxied to the take-off lines at all the Corps's major fields-Virginia's Langley, Long Island's Mitchel, Michigan's Selfridge,* Louisiana's Barksdale, Alabama's Maxwell, Texas' Randolph, Kelly, Brooks and Duncan, Illinois's Chanute and Scott, Colorado's Lowry, Washington's Fort Lewis, California's March and Hamilton. At a radio signal from President Roosevelt in the White House, the planes at all these fields roared forward, swept aloft, joined each other in droning, hammering formations, swung...