Word: aeronautics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation. "The altimeter," he said later, "was the only instrument I had in the bas. ket. I looked in my pockets to see what else there might be. There was a pocketknife for opening beer bottles, a handkerchief and 1,650 Belgian francs. Nothing else." Bravely the bold aeronaut straightened the pink tie that hung across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed a steamer below. He valved gas out of the bag above his head, came down...
...would soon level off and that it would finally land, on higher ground than it had rested on before the war, but in a stable position nevertheless. But last week, despite all sorts of order-shouting and lever-jerking, prices were still going up like the balloon that carried Aeronaut Ira Thurston out over Lake Erie...
...start of France's annual Prix Alfred Leblanc balloon race, and nine dauntless aeronauts from France, The Netherlands and Switzerland were on hand to compete for the grand prize of 6,000 francs (about the price of a good pair of shoes). The French aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
...over the English Channel approached the Dover chalk cliffs from the French shore. Larger & larger it grew until watchers on the British side could clearly distinguish a man steering a gimcrack monoplane. He landed safely, and the British rushed to join the world in congratulating Aeronaut Louis Bleriot upon passing one of aviation's epochal milestones...