Word: flyering
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Byrd and his crew of three crashed the America after their June 1927 transatlantic flight, the Byrd Foundation Committee laid the cornerstone for a monument to the flyer: a "sanctuary" for flyers of all nations and an orphanage for children of flyers...
...Johnson, leading a safari to make moving pictures, rescued her friends Canadian Goldminer Phillip Whitmarsh and his wife. Flying to join the Johnson party, they had crashed 30 miles from Nairobi, spent four days without food. In the London Sunday Chronicle, James Allan Mollison, stubby four-time trans-Atlantic flyer and, in 1932, first person to fly solo across the North Atlantic east to west, serialized his autobiography. Week before publication was to start he blurbed: "The world knows me as a hero, but I am a night bird. . . . Life for me begins when daylight fades and bright lights glitter...
...week-old third son of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, self-exiled in England, was named Land Morrow Lindbergh-Land is the family name of Flyer Lindbergh's mother...
...Moscow, Dictator Joseph Stalin was pleased to designate Flyer Sigismund Levanevsky as the first man, when the time comes, to try the flight from Moscow to San Francisco via the North Pole base. Lithe, taciturn pilot Levanevsky is a boot-black's son who fought with the Red Guard in the War, first made news when he flew to the rescue of U. S. Flyer Jimmie Mattern in Siberia in 1933. Levanevsky later helped rescue the members of the wrecked Chelyuskin expedition. Two years ago he was forced back while attempting a non-stop flight from Moscow...
Michael Gregor, who built the first private Russian airplane, a modified Bleriot, in 1910 and sold it to Major Seversky's father. A War flyer, Gregor arrived in the U. S. in 1921, designed several planes including the Bird in which Charles Augustus Lindbergh taught his wife to fly. Gregor had a hand in the design of the Seversky amphibian, is currently freelancing...