Word: flyering
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...true that Robert Short failed to bring down any of the invading planes, but he did kill the Japanese flyer who headed the raid, thereby preventing the Japanese attackers from carrying out their bombing raid to the extent that they originally intended...
Stocky, grinning Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks, famed publicity flyer, holder of nearly all informal city-to-city speed records in the U. S. and Europe, was not grinning one day last week when attendants at the Worcester, Mass, airport pulled him from beneath his crashed Travel Air "mystery plane" Texaco 13. Day before he had hopped from Detroit (in 3 hr. 5 min.). lectured the Worcester Boy Scouts on the necessity of developing foolproof planes, but had delayed his departure until the next morning because of a soggy field. An escort plane had nosed up when it landed just ahead...
...fourth day the skies cleared. Across the width of Goose Island the three men wriggled on their stomachs, waited uncomfortable hours within sight of some big, flat rocks. Finally, out of the water clambered a single big bull seal, settled himself oleaginously upon a rock. Flyer Petre drew bead, fired straight & true. The seal shivered, shook, flipped, flopped, floundered to the edge of the rock, plunked into the water with a permanent plop. The three huntsmen grappled for him, but grappled in vain. Sadly they set sail for Manhasset to wait another year...
...their pockets and a strange story to tell. They had just attempted a take-off "to Portugal." Both men-Frank Gushing and Andrew Soos Jr.-were sailors absent without leave from the U. S. S. Louisville which fortnight earlier had sailed for Guantanamo Bay. Neither was a licensed flyer, although Gushing claimed to have soloed. To bring fame to themselves and their ship, they had planned the flight. They funded their savings of $1,200, somehow raised $800 more from shipmates and bought the old monoplane, on which they still owed $10 when it cracked up last week. Locked...
Again Christofersen. Exactly 20 years ago the late Silas Christofersen, early dare-devil flyer of the West, flew a flimsy home-made plane off the roof of Portland, Ore.'s Multonomah Hotel. Last week his widow left Seattle to salvage by plane a fur ship abandoned off Point Barrow, Alaska...