Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather in London is sufficiently cool," he observed, "I shall wear ordinary European trousers...
...Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying from Detroit to Manhattan.) They were assembled not to be honored, but to honor belatedly Dr. James Henry ("Doc") Kimball of the New York office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who has never flown but who is largely responsible for the success of every oceanic flight starting from the Atlantic coast...
...somewhat older than his 57 years, Dr. Kimball was literally "overwhelmed," moved nearly to tears by the demonstration. He made a speech reviewing the critical stages of the flights he had helped to prepare "partly for the thrill I get out of them." Also he said: "A greatly improved weather map is sorely needed [before scheduled trans-Atlantic flight can be considered]. Inadequacy of information, not unsatisfactory weather, is often the reason for postponed flights. Unknown weather is bad weather when the only hope of success lies in full recognition of all hazards, including weather...
...what was left of it by souvenir-hunters-could give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect the wreckage for himself. Fiercely proud of his creation, he was certain there was no structural failure. "The flight should not have been undertaken in existing weather conditions," he said. "I would say the human element entered very strongly into the cause of the crash." It was drizzling when the plane took off from Kansas City for Los Angeles, but reports said the weather was clearing in the west. At Wichita, only 60 mi. from the crash...
...British dirigible R-101 crashed in France and killed 48 occupants because of leaking gas and bad weather. That fact, which everyone already knew, was virtually the sum total of the long-awaited report of the court of inquiry, delivered last week in London. The investigators fixed no blame upon Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, the Secretary of State for Air (killed in the crash) who was said to have hastened the start of the flight to India to precede the opening of the Imperial Conference. But they gingerly admitted that the inadequately tested ship ''would not have started...