Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distance of 475 miles. Much longer flights have been accomplished in previous races, with over 1,100 miles as the world's record balloon flight. This - the 13th contest - was marked by none of the terrible accidents of last year, when three aeronauts lost their lives in a thunderstorm. The race was in no way remarkable nor was the competition as keen as had been expected. The balloon of Captain E. H. Honeywell, veteran American, on whom U. S. hopes were concentrated, landed at Rouen with only 181 miles to its credit; and another American entry, with Maj. Peck...
...moonless night, a thunderstorm, two sessions...
...minutes over Canadian soil; then the Shenandoah encountered (without difficulty) a heavy fog drifting over Buffalo from Lake Erie. Over Canaseraga, N. Y., the dirigible ran into a thunderstorm, and great flashes of lightning lit up the huge and gleaming bulk at frequent intervals. The dirigible dodged the thunderstorm with ease, though she had to leave her course over the Erie Railway and to retrace her route to the North for a while...
What could disprove the notion of the Shenandoah being a fair-weather craft more happily than this? A moonless night, a heavy thunderstorm, two sessions of heavy fog?none of these seemed to have bothered the ship very much. The difficulty in landing "light" will certainly disappear when the ballast recovery apparatus has been attached to every engine...
...Palace, many of the Senators and Deputies left immediately, but some of the young and ardent Fascisti had not finished. As soon as the wheels of the royal coaches had started to revolve, their constraint vanished and with relief akin to that felt after the passage of a thunderstorm they volleyed the Fascist hymn Giovinezza...