Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airmen missing in remote regions, or searching for persons lost there, make international news. Last week there were three such news stories...
...collect from motorists for running over his chickens now brings suit against aviators for damaging his crops by forced landings. But not Farmer E. S. Porter of Hot Springs, Va. Last week Farmer Porter wrote to David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, to tell airmen who fly over his place "to land anywhere on me regardless of crops. You know with any rain at all you can grow a crop in three months, but it takes 21 years to grow...
From the week's sessions Col. Young emerged with an acute headache and the heightened respect of thoughtful airmen. Immediately after the Rockne crash (the cause of which remains unexplained save that a wing was ripped off in midair) he ordered a Fokker to Wright Field, Ohio for rigorous wing tests. The result did not please him.* Fearing a repetition of the Rockne crash, Col. Young quietly ordered all operators to withdraw their Fokkers pending inspection-which he also intended to keep quiet. But the story was broken by astute newshawks who saw certain of the operators wheeling their...
Byrd's failure to take off for France before Lindbergh did is the first object of Fokker's scorn. Concerning the flight itself (in the Fokker-built America), Fokker dwells upon what airmen already knew: that the ability and steady nerve of Pilot Bernt Balchen were largely-if not solely-responsible for the right-side-up landing of the plane near Ver-Sur-Mer in France and the escape of the crew. Here he italicizes a sentence from Byrd's own book Skyward: "Balchen happened to be at the wheel...
Thus a year ago spoke lanky, bushy-haired William Bushnell Stout, vice president of Stout Metal Airplane Co., designer and builder of Ford tri-motors (TIME, May 26). Airmen knew that Designer...