Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designed the famed NC flying ships, one of which was the first airplane to cross the Atlantic, and the Shenandoah, first helium-filled dirigible. For three years he was Assistant Naval Attache in London, Berlin, Rome. When the Shenandoah's crash was laid to lack of weather information, Dr. Hunsaker promptly began work on meteorology and radio communications, resigned from the Navy to join the research staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories. For Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. he, with Dr. Karl Arnstein who built 70 German dirigibles, turned out the Akron and the Macon. He will continue as consultant for Goodyear...
...German record was 16½ hr.; but a U. S. Army officer, Lieut. William A. Cocke Jr., had sailed for 21½ hr. over Honolulu two years ago. . . . Kurt Schmidt swung along the ridge again, soared silently through the darkness. His friends on the ground, catching the idea, flashed weather signals to him with a pocket flashlight. Midnight passed, dawn broke, the sun touched meridian. Kurt Schmidt, tired and hungry, sailed on & on. A second dusk brought threats of a storm. Schmidt and the Loerzer landed with a duration record...
...have conceived. The heat stood a solid wall even ... at 10,000 feet, and if we tried a mere peep through windows our eyes were scorched and our heads swam. Of course, to add to the discomfort, it was rough as the dickens. . ." After two scorching days & nights, the weather turned cool and cloudy. They began to enjoy themselves. Near Juba the pilot banged a bell thrice. Game! Fourteen passengers whooped with excitement, flattened their noses against the windows as the ship's nose went down. They saw a herd of about 200 elephants of assorted sizes; then another...
...through another belt and is bombarded by meteors from the direction of Leo, so that as many as 40 "shooting stars" can be seen in one minute with the Naka eye. There will be an exhibit of outstanding stellar photography, and an observation and identity of constellations if the weather permits. The development of astronomical equipment, illustrations of the Hooker telescope, the famous Lick observatory, spectroscopes, and the work Harvard has done in solar studies in South Africa, will be shown...
...HEAVY WEATHER -P. G. Wodehouse- Little, Brown...