Word: flyering
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First to part the maneuvers' heavy veil of censorship, as it turned out, was Death. Steaming into Pearl Harbor, some 60 assorted U. S. war vessels would not tell where they had been or where they were going, but announced that during the week a flyer had been killed taking off from the Saratoga, one man had been fatally injured in a collision between the destroyers Sicard...
Since fear of Adolf Hitler drove France and Italy into each other's arms, it is no longer polite to remind Italians that French bombing planes from Corsica could be over Rome in less than an hour. Last week three of France's ablest pilots, North Atlantic Flyer Maurice Rossi, South Atlantic Flyer Jean Marmoz, one-time War Ace Paul Girardot, climbed to the controls of three Potez "56"' pursuit planes in Paris last week and took off with Air Minister General Victor Denain and other French officials for Rome...
...Putnam's flight was to test a radio homing compass in her capacity as $1-a-year employe of the Department of Commerce. Over the State of Hidalgo both radio and compass went sour, a bug flew into her eye and she lost her bearings. Thereupon Flyer Putnam "sat down" in a cow pasture, learned that she was 60 miles from her goal...
Added Sir Alan Cobham, a pioneer England-to-Australia flyer: "The possibilities of strafing from the air have become so uncivilized that it has become beyond war. Lord Castlerosse knows nothing about...
...page news when, in December, he spotted from the air an American Airlines passenger plane which had been lost for more than 48 hours in the blizzard-swept Adirondacks. Oldtime airmail pilot, member of Admiral Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica, Dean Smith has never been a headline flyer, lives quietly with his wife and daughter in East Orange, N. J., flies a Condor sleeper plane between Newark and Buffalo...