Word: takeoffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieut. Bromley first undertook the Pacific venture as a Tacoma-Tokyo solo flight early last year. His first plane, a Lockheed, was wrecked at the takeoff. Two more crashed in testflights. With the Emsco, Lieut. Bromley abandoned the westbound route because of prevailing headwinds, sailed for Tokyo with plane and navigator last July...
...severely worn, suggesting a long march over the floes from where the balloon came down. Most precious of all was Andree's diary. Its pages were so fragile that the finders feared to examine it. But one entry was visible? July 18, 1897, just one week after the fated takeoff...
...July 11, 1897 the Oernen (Eagle) with its three occupants cast off from Danes Island, Spitsbergen, sailed north, was lost forever. Of a number of carrier pigeons taken along, one made its way home with a cheery message despatched 12 hr. after the takeoff. A number of message-buoys were also recovered, one as late as September 1912, but only two contained notes, both written prior to the one borne by the pigeon. Since November 1897, numerous expeditions have gone in search of the Andree party. It was rightly assumed that the winds had borne them far east...
Spartans Triumphant. True to their boast, John and Kenneth Hunter were still flying their Stinson monoplane City of Chicago on July 4, the 23rd day after their takeoff from Chicago's Sky Harbor airport (TIME, July 7). Then a clogged screen cut their engine's oil supply. Kenneth tried to remove it for cleaning but the oil spurted out. They had to land- with a new endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec., more than 133 hr. better than the previous mark. Followed the frenzied aftermath, no less dizzying to the humble family from Sparta...
...latter's daughter Alicia), had not suffered a serious accident. Last week Capt. Becker flew a $25,000 Laird biplane from Roosevelt Field to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., there overshot the field, cracked up. He climbed into another Laird, reached Roosevelt Field 2 hr. after his first takeoff, struck a soft patch of ground, cracked up. Said Capt. Becker, emerging still unhurt from the second wreck: "Well, I guess that's a record...