Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flyer could President Roosevelt last week find on the list of fleet officers from which the Navy's General Board had asked him to choose a successor to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett as Chief of its Bureau of Aeronautics. He delighted Navy airmen by brushing the list aside, naming a man who has more than 400 hours at airplane controls to his credit. Tall, spare, keen-jawed Captain Ernest J. King, 54. father of six daughters and a son, qualified as a Naval Aviator (pilot) in 1927, has since successively commanded the Scouting Fleet...
...finished his business, then plunged into Timbuctoo night life. Very soon all three decided the social pace there was too fast for them, moved on to get away from cocktails and all-night parties. On their leisurely way back Wauthier and Seabrook joined in a hunt for missing French airmen, Companion Worthington was temporarily lost crossing the Sahara in a motor truck, but they all left Africa together, flew home safe & sound...
Over & above flagpole-sitting feats and dance marathons there are still some records hung so high and in such out-of-the-way places that few will care to shoot at them. Fortnight ago English airmen flew over Mt. Everest (TIME, April 10). Not so publicized or so spectacular but every bit as jaunty was Aime Felix Tschiffely's recent (1925-27) 10,000-mile horseback ride from Buenos Aires to Washington...
Last week the R. A. F. upgrading reached the enlisted ranks. Prouder than any air marshal were the sergeant majors, highest ranking non-commissioned officers, heretofore "one step removed from a gentleman." Henceforth the sergeant major is a warrant officer, to be "addressed by airmen as 'sir' and to be referred to as 'mister...
...years ago Sportsman Pilot began publishing a series of the prints, dropped .them when the editors suspected their authenticity. Last autumn Mrs. Cockburn-Lange sold a set to Illustrated London News which printed striking full-page reproductions for several weeks. Thus publicized for the first time among British airmen, the Cockburn-Lange pictures aroused a controversy over their legitimacy finally aired in the issue of The Aeroplane which reached the U. S. last week...