Word: takeoffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well did sad Tom Braniff and all at the luncheon know that a few days before the award's presentation (but some weeks after it had been voted) one of his Chicago-Dallas airliners had cracked up just off Oklahoma City's airport on a night takeoff. Seven passengers and the stewardess had died in flames. The pilots and two passengers had been badly injured...
...than their fellow dreamers across the sea, had their hair raised last week when they read, in the latest B. I. S. Journal, an article entitled "The Payload on the Lunar Trip." This juicily detailed the equipment to be taken on the first lunar voyage, sounded as though the takeoff were scheduled for next week. Excerpts...
...throw a switch marked "land." A series of bulbs on the instrument board will light, and as he gets his landing gear down, lowers his flaps, cranks back his stabilizer, et al., the lights will go out, one by one. By other switches, he can check his operations for takeoff, or for any other operations. When the instrument board is dark after a check, all is well...
Observers were all eyes at her takeoff, but only a few of them knew that she was the secret entry of famed Planemaker Donald Douglas in a forthcoming competition for light Army bombers. Not even visiting Army fliers had been allowed near the guarded room of the Douglas Aircraft Co. factory where the ship, supposed to have a top speed of 400 m.p.h., had been built...
...Bechet; Cornetists Bobby Hackett, Hotlips Paige; Pianist Jess Stacey; Trombonist Tommy Dorsey; Drummers Dave Tough and Zutty Singleton. Present also were No. 1 Swing Pundit Hugues Panassié, grey-haired Blues-writer William Christopher Handy (St.Louis Blues, Memphis Blues). This prime assortment of talent bumped slightly at the takeoff, but in the final ensemble lived up to its big names...