Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oddest fact about 70-year-old retired Major General Sir Reginald Ford, appointed Chief Divisional Food Officer for London and the Home Counties last August, is that he makes his home in Brussels, Belgium, 250 air miles away. His is mainly a wartime job and he is needed in London only for occasional consultation. Explained Sir Reginald recently: "Heavens, man, I can get to London quicker than I could if I lived in Scotland. ... I catch the 10 a.m. plane from Brussels and am in my office...
...come into being around 1942-1944. Its government would have to give Britain the guarantee that minority rights for the Jews would be respected, that the places holy to three religions in the country would be protected and that Britain would get the right to maintain such military, naval, air bases and oil reserves as she pleased...
Thus began the radio log of United Air Lines' Trip 6-Seattle to San Diego, Calif.- on the rainy night of November 28, 1938. Nine hours later Co-Pilot Lloyd E. Jones was dead, drowned in the surf off Point Reyes, near Oakland. So were the stewardess and three of the four passengers. The ship, a Douglas DC-3, out of gas, off its course and miserably mismanaged by its First Pilot Charles B. Stead, was a wave-washed wreck...
Last week crash experts of the Air Safety Board turned over to the Civil Aeronautics Authority their official report of the loss of U. A. L.'s Trip 6. It was the most damning official criticism of plane and ground crews in U. S. airline history. It also recommended unprecedented penal ties for both. After the crash, Pilot Stead's explanation was that he got lost because sunspot activity caused radio "long skip." made remote radio stations drown out ranges on his course (TIME, Dec. 12). The hard-headed experts of the Air Safety Board summarily laid...
...trip; because of Stead's failure to find his position by a simple standard orientation problem; because the Oakland office failed to recognize the inconsistency of Stead's course with the course to be flown on the northeast leg, and for many other reasons, the Air Board found: 1) that the crash was due primarily to bad judgment by Pilot Stead and two Oakland dispatchers, Thomas P. Van Sceiver and Philip Stever Showalter; 2) that U. A. L.'s procedures for aiding aircraft under such an emergency were inadequate...