Word: runway
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...control-tower speaker came Captain Scott's businesslike voice: "Contact-1,500"; i.e., at 1,500 feet he was out of the clouds, could see the ground. The laggard wind had freshened to 9 m.p.h. and Phil Scott had radioed he would come in on the northwest runway. As he made his turn, baggage handlers began wheeling their carts down to the gate where he was to dock...
...laid down squarely in the midst of Alaska's 'toughest winter weather. The ground thaws on top but always remains frozen two or three feet down. There, working three shifts in Alaska's 24-hour summer daylight, Army engineers have laid down a two-mile-long runway and reared the first of Ladd Field's hangars and shops. There, this winter, Air Corps pilots and mechanics will get their first big lesson in Arctic operations...
...decided on the inland route. Blotner sent an unaeronautical engineer to Barreiras to find a landing field for a stop between Belem and Rio. The engineer chose a spot about three miles from town, laid out its boundaries. Last Spring an expedition cleared one runway so Pan Am engineers could fly in to finish the job. When they got there, they found that the engineer had ignored the shelf of a plateau rising 1,000 feet from the edge of the field. By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in. The engineers went to look for a new field...
...days afterwards German planes ranged widely over the British Isles on scattered raids in small formations. They said they smashed the runway at the Bristol airport, the Pobjoy airplane-engine works at Rochester, an explosives factory at Faversham, docks and shipyards at Newcastle, Sheerness, Chatham. On the third day they staged another big show, beginning at 7:30 a.m., on Dover's repaired balloon barrage...
...company, tall, straight-lipped Vultee President Richard W. Millar needed new capacity fast. Stinson has the advantage of a supermodern plant, situated in the Defense Area, hemmed in by the high Cumberland Mountains, supplied with cheap TVA power. It adjoins Nashville's huge new Berry Field, with ample runway room for test takeoffs. The average flying weather is better in Tennessee than most other sections. With Tennessee's plentiful labor, Vultee could figure on boosting employment at Nashville from Stinson's present 725 to 7,000 or more. Stinson had a parts plant at Wayne, Mich.; Vultee...