Word: struts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke starboard propeller. Flying near Wabasha." Officials scowled apprehensively for the trimotored Ford carried eight passengers. "Freeburg talking. Motor vibrating badly." Cool, Pilot Freeburg continued to describe to headquarters how the terrific vibration of the unbalanced propeller jerked the motor from its mountings, how it lodged in a wing strut, damaged the landing gear. Lest the 500 Ib. of dead metal drop and injure some one on the ground, he swung his crippled ship out over the Mississippi River, banked steeply, shook the engine off, watched it fall down, down, down safely into the water. After requesting a relief ship...
...affair would be, the big annual ball of the Engineering School! How red-blooded and stalwart the engineers, who stride the campus daily in corduroys and stout boots, seemingly oblivious to the admiring glances of the coeds! A fig for their rivals the law-students, who garb themselves nattily, strut with walking sticks! Mary Butterfield hummed gaily, her thoughts on the triumph, that would be hers when the engineers crowned her Queen of the Ball. About mid-afternoon she left the sorority house...
...just wrested them away with a 76-hr, flight. Over the Mediterranean not far from Pisa, the plane's propeller snapped. Flailing blades ripped through the cockpit, slashed the fuselage in two. One man tried to jump as the plane dove. But his parachute was caught in a strut, he went to death with his mates...
...into the plane with them and off they flew. Night found them 60 mi. short of Bermuda over a glassy sea. They descended, floated the swells until dawn, got up again, reached Hamilton Harbor. Their prizes: $1,000 each; publicity for Richfield Oil Co. A sprained pontoon strut prevented their flying home. The significance: when an Armstrong Seadrome (TIME, Oct. 28) is anchored midway, and terminal facilities are improved, and Yancey's weather and course observations are collated, a New York-Bermuda week-end airline may be practicable...