Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended in a virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited to take out the League Commission. They struck their white flag and up amid huzzas went the bright gold, blue and red of Colombia. "Contact!" cried the pilot and the tri-motor roared. Said Guillermo Giraldez, Spanish President of the League Commission, as he took off: "An historic occasion...
Russians beheld the arrival upside down in Leningrad last week of U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt as the government plane, piloted from Moscow by the U. S. military attache, nosed over on landing and left both men hanging heels over heads from their safety straps. First news of this event reached President Roosevelt in an Ambassadorial cable: "PLANE LANDED UPSIDE DOWN BUT WE EMERGED RIGHT SIDE UP. TRUST NO ONE HAS REPORTED TO YOU THAT WE ARE DEAD...
Last year the two best builders of U. S. racing planes were Zantford D. ("Granny") Granville and James Robert ("Jimmy") Wedell. Between their fat little Gee-Bee's and Wedell-Williams Specials it was a toss-up in any race. Last February "Granny" Granville was killed in one of his own planes at Spartanburg, S. C. (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week Jimmy Wedell was killed in a Gypsy Moth near Patterson, La. A student taking his first flight was believed to have "frozen" to the stick, stalled the plane...
...empty when Der Fiihrer arrives." Sharp at 9:45 a. m. Il Duce was at Lido Airport in his favorite grey-green uniform of a Corporal of Honor of the Fascist Militia, perspiring under his black fez with red tassels. Out of a dazzling sky rocketed three Italian pursuit planes escorting two lumbering German airliners. Swooping down to a perfect landing the first German ship nosed up toward 220 gaudy Italian uniforms. A door popped open and Adolf Hitler sprang his little surprise. He stepped out not in Nazi uniform but wearing an old rain coat over a dark business...
Twenty-five years ago the U. S. Army Air Corps consisted of one plane and one pilot. He was a keen-eyed, pipe-smoking bantam named Lieut. Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois. Up from the ranks of infantry, he joined the Signal Corps in 1908, learned to fly balloons, went to Fort Myer, Va. where Orville Wright was trying to sell the Army its first airplane. He laid out the test course-the amazing distance of ten miles-and was chosen official passenger by Orville Wright for two reasons. First, he weighed only 126 Ib. Second, as Orville Wright...