Word: bernt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernt Balchen, who flew Richard Evelyn Byrd across the Atlantic and over the South Pole, took a job last week as pilot on the Ludington Line's plane-every-hour service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Pilot Balchen & backers are planning a round-the-world flight...
...months later Secretary Wilbur pinned the D. F. C. upon the breasts of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and Radioman Noville for the flight to France - a private venture backed by the late Rodman Wanamaker. "At the same table ... sat Bernt Balchen, Lieutenant in the Norwegian Naval Reserve . . . and Bert Acosta [who] had flown Byrd and Noville across the Atlantic ... to them, publicly, Secretary Wilbur expressed regret that because they were 'civilians' the law barred them from...
...overpublicized, experts but not sensationalists were Myron E. Zeller, chief pilot, and Carl Wenzel, chief test mechanic, of Ford Motor's aircraft division. Pilot Zeller flew a Ford to fourth place in the National Reliability Air Tour last September. Mechanic Wenzel was selected to accompany the Ford which Bernt Balchen and the late Floyd Bennett flew to the relief of the transatlantic monoplane Bremen on Greenly Island off Labrador...
...Married. Bernt Balchen. pilot for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on trans-Atlantic and Polar flights; and Emmy Soerlie, of Brooklyn; at Coytesville...
...Bernt Balchen, Norse aviator who flew Richard Evelyn Byrd across the Atlantic and over the South Pole, learned that because his intended five-year residence in America had been broken by two years in Little America he would be penalized, have to wait two extra years before he can file his second citizenship papers...