Word: flyering
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...small plane taxied right up to the fence of the home at Bundaberg, Australia, last week. Flyer Harold (Bert) Hinkler stepped stiffly out and kissed his mother waiting there. That was the goal of his record-breaking solo flight from Croyden, England, to the Antipodes...
Clarence Duncan Chamberlain, New York-to-Berlin flyer, started on a lecture tour of the southern states in a Sperry-Messenger plane last week. He did the first lap through a snowstorm, and will do 5,000 miles in five weeks. His plane has a 26-foot wingspread...
...lack of a nail an army was lost and for want of a pin, a CRIMSON candidate very nearly lost the desired opportunity of a few words with Commander Richard E. Byrd, famous explorer and trans oceanic flyer, who was in Symphony Hall officiating at a recent international festival of music...
...Augustus Lindbergh settled himself in the Spirit of St. Louis in the blackness of the wee small hours. Farewells were called and the ship angled up into the night, circled, and shot out for home. Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis, the country grew apprehensive for the punctual ambassador...
...dripping dusk the great flyer dropped at St. Louis to a squashy field, safe, fit, smiling. After 9,000 miles of spreading through Central and South America the glad tidings of U. S. good will toward men he was at rest at last in his home airport...