Word: flyering
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...none too cohesive flyers and officials in the Dole Flight were amazed last week when Flyer Frank L. Clarke wheeled out his biplane, Miss Holly dale, and started gorging her with gasoline. They inquired where he was going. "For a ride," said...
...distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot, and Emory Bronte, navigator, who entered dense fog with their Travelair monoplane, City of Oakland, soon after leaving Oakland, Calif., for Honolulu in mid-Pacific. "Foggy as hell," snapped Flyer Smith's first signals. Then he seemed to get used to it and flashed: "Going fine ... we will run out of it soon." Again, he said: "Go-ing strong. . . . Radio beacon working great." The strain began to show in a later message: "Receiving...
...supposed the case of an aviator able to fly at a speed equal to Earth's rotation (roughly, 1,000 m.p.h. midway between Poles and Equator). If the flyer flew against the rotation of the earth, from east to west, he would keep pace with the sun, remaining constantly at the o'clock when he started. Going the other way, eastward, he would pass a whole day in 12 hours...
Less solemn than this, more comical was the letter sent Mr. Ford by airmail from the Welcoming Committee of the Rockaway Chamber of Commerce. The Rockaways are a group of up-&-doing suburbs of New York. Charles A. Levine, transatlantic flyer, has friends there, and it is to do him honor when he returns from Europe that the Welcoming Committee is functioning. Its Chairman, shrewd Richard M. Gipson, wrote Mr. Ford: "At this time, when you have magnanimously attested your faith in the Jewish people, it would seem fitting that you should be present at the banquet to be held...
...months ago, well-meaning Mr. Forrest, whose years of scrivening and dubious golf game have not dulled his sensibilities and his imagination, stood outside the offices of a leading Paris newspaper and watched the posting of bulletins about ill-fated Flyers Coli and Nungesser. Several thousands of Frenchmen surrounded Mr. Forrest and when a bulletin was posted saying that the flyers had been falsely reported safe in the U. S., Mr. Forrest interpreted the Frenchmen's noisy grief and disappointment as an "anti-A m e r i c a n demonstration." Other U. S. correspondents in Paris soon...