Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, Designer Sikorsky hastened work on a new plane for Pilot Fonck; obtained from the U. S. Labor Department extensions of stay for two of his immigrant Russian wing-makers...
...Clarence E. Martin, Vermont sheep raiser, reported last week a loss of 40 sheep, one Wallace H. Wing a loss of 31, all 71 having been eaten by black bears, who left the sheeps' skulls and big bones rolled up in the pelts...
Meadows is filling the end position left vacant by Gamache, and Robinson is again in the other wing position. Goodwin has replaced Kilgour at guard and E. Clark is in the backfield in place of Fench. The latter has had a recurrence of a boil, but although out as a starter may see service before the afternoon is over...
...that the "dolly" twice bumped heavily, failed to leave the ground. Captain Fonck said afterwards: "I intended to stop the plane but I was afraid it would tear into the crowd of automobiles. . . ." The crippled monster reached a gully at the runway's end, turned a cartwheel, right wing down, and vanished from sight...
...Havana, one Angel Arango pleaded and pleaded with air pilots to take him aloft. He wanted to step off the wing of a plane and drop into the Gulf of Mexico from an altitude sufficient to test a combination parachute and buoyant belt he had invented. Pilots old and pilots young refused to budge. To them the device did not look practical. Last week, however, Senor Arango found his man, clambered joyfully into a cockpit, waved goodbye to watching thousands, crept out on the plane's wing tip at 3,000 feet, stepped backwards into empty air. The parachute...