Word: triads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Gannet, where stood Admiral David Foote Sellers, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet: "He's up!" Plane No. 5 had found a breeze off a point of land, had climbed on it. At five-minute intervals her sister ships followed her and then in triad formation Squadron 10-F hummed out through the Golden Gate, bent a great circle course over six patrol boats anchored at 300 mi. intervals across the Pacific. Next morning the commanding officer of the naval station at Pearl Harbor received a radio message: "REQUEST PERMISSION TO LAND AND MOOR AT ASSIGNED BEACH...
From Lisbon the armada flew non-stop to its glorious homecoming. Practically all of Rome and its hordes of visitors flocked to Fiumicino Airport at the mouth of the muddy Tiber, 15 mi. outside the city, to see the planes arrive. As usual Balbo's triad landed first to a deafening frenzy of cheering, whistle-blowing, bell-clanging, cannon-shooting. The General taxied his plane alongside an improvised receiving stand (a derrick platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood...
...hills around Lough Foyle. Londonderry's tidy harbor, as General Italo Balbo's seaplane armada circled the city with a fearful roar of 48 wide-open motors. They paraded the sky in platoons of six"black-hulled, red, green, white"each platoon being formed by two tight triads. Soon all were moored, and General Balbo and his officers went ashore in motorboats to tread rose petals, cast by Italian children on their way to Londonderry's Guildhall. The 24 seaplanes rode at moorings, drinking gasoline by the hundred-gallon in preparation for the next jump to Iceland...
...squadron of twelve great Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes roared along the water off Bolama, west coast of Africa, to take-off for Brazil (TIME, Jan. 5). The first group of three black-winged ships, led by the General himself, vanished into the night, followed by a green-winged triad. Next came the red wings, but the third plane of that group faltered under its 10,000-lb. load, nosed down into the sea, killed its mechanic. The last triad, white-winged, was in the air ten minutes when its second plane crashed, burst into flame, sank with its entire crew...