Word: training
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter whether Lady Sophie Heath arrived in London by plane, train or horsecar, because her rival, Lady Mary Bailey, 38, had won the race a week before by completing her flight from London to Cape Town...
...bottle, the cheese sandwich and the leather jacket. Passengers' safety and comfort are, above all else, to command the attention of the newly formed Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., which announced its plans last week. It will put into operation, within six months or a year, a 48-hour train & plane service between Manhattan and Los Angeles...
Passengers will board a train at the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Manhattan at 6:05 p. m. Having dined and played and slept and breakfasted, they will step off the train next morning at 8:30 in Columbus, Ohio, where they will be whisked to an airport. Trimotored planes of 14-passenger capacity will be waiting to receive them. Each plane will have two pilots, a steward, light refreshments, room for hand baggage, a luxuriously furnished cabin with ample observation windows. Flying on a schedule calling for 90 m. p. h., occasionally sprinting at 120 m. p. h., the planes...
Going the other way, passengers will leave Los Angeles by plane at 8:30 a. m., arrive in Manhattan by train 48 hours later. Thus, the same plan of flying by day and railroading by night will be followed in both directions. This will, no doubt, comfort nervous passengers who might not like the sky at night, and please scenic lovers who might like the view by day. Also, greater safety will be achieved by the elimination of night flying. The treacherous Alleghany mountains will be crossed by train, in both directions...
...Manhattan-Los Angeles route is only one of many that the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., plans to cover by train & plane. For example, a daytime airline will operate between Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Not neglected will be Palm Beach, New Orleans, Dallas, San Francisco, Spokane, Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, etc. "I can foresee where we may be using a thousand ships or more within a few years," said Walter Sands Marvin of Hemphill Noyes & Co., one of the 19 directors of Transcontinental Air Transport...