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Born. To flyer & Mrs. Bernt Balchen; a son, weight 8¾ lb.; at Hasbrouck Heights...
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...
...newshawks last week, the scattered crew of the America made characteristic comments. Said Byrd in Little Rock, Ark.: "I have no objection to Mr. Fokker's saying that Balchen did the better job on the transatlantic flight than I did. I have always felt that way myself." Said Bernt Balchen, shy by nature and embarrassed by his present position as a Fokker testpilot: "I don't know where Tony got all his information; but there are no mistakes in it." From Noville in Los Angeles: "Byrd commanded, and the rest of us, including Balchen, took orders. Acosta...
...plane immediately preceding its dive into the sea near the lighthouse at Ver-sur-Mer on the French coast. The real hero at that time, according to this new autobiography, was not Byrd, as might be inferred by anyone reading the Admiral's accounts, but in reality Bernt Balchen, the air navigator whose achievements are well known to all followers of aviation...
...other crash cases the defense pleaded Act-of-God (TIME, March 30 et ante), summoned such expert witnesses as Frank Monroe Hawks, Bernt Balchen and Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones to testify that the company had taken reasonable care, that the pilot had done his best in an emergency. But for the plaintiffs Attorney Ernest P. Biro (his famed witness was Clarence Chamberlin) argued that the emergency was of Pilot Foote's own making: attempting to turn at low altitude after a motor...