Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pilots observed no silence. To put crepe on an airplane's wing is against all aviation superstition. Whether or not insular, U. S. airmen never regarded Santos-Dumont as a figure in U. S. aviation. Orville Wright was one of the few who ever...
...Oldtime airmen can recall no factual basis for the episode referred to in Air Mail, an episode which air transport men regard as libelous. Nearest historical approach to the legend is the case of the late "Al" Wilson, Hollywood stunt pilot, who jumped from a spinning Sikorsky bomber, leaving in the ship a man who was manipulating smokepots for a cinema shot. The passenger also wore a 'chute but made no apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September...
...apex pointing north to where the hill formerly stood. From the apex to the south face is carved a rugged suggestion of swept-back wings. A revolving beacon surmounts the shaft. For the present at least, the beacon will be more of a landmark to mariners than to airmen. The nearest airport is army's Langley Field, 80 mi. north. The nearest airway passes some 200 mi. to the west...
...whole thing in three months? 34,000 words of it at one sitting, between sunrise and sunrise. Published and distributed privately, the book cost him some £10,000. To pay off his debt he made a popular abridgment (in two nights, with the help of two other airmen), the best-selling Revolt in the Desert. Lawrence himself never made a penny out of either book but some of his friends did. He sent a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom to his good, hard-up friend Poet Robert Graves, with a note, "Please sell when read." Graves sold...
...about by thunderstorms in the most primitive craft that flies-then to stretch my legs under a table in the Graf's saloon and have a steward hand me a wine list about this long-the contrast left me speechless!" To the "Early Birds," as the pre-War airmen formally call themselves, Lieut. Settle brought news of one of their own. Just before his steamer reached Manhattan he had seen a radio despatch from Paris relating that Clifford Burke Harmon had offered to renew the Bennett Trophy for international ballooning which the U. S. had just won permanently...