Word: capts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome that is the U. S. has returned one of its adopted sons, the ubiquitous, restless Russian painter of Philadelphia, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, erstwhile of the Tsar's Cossacks (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Some years he goes to the Balkans. Once he went to Haiti with Naturalist William Beebe. Two years ago he went "up" north down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. Last summer he went to see the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece, which have changed scarcely by one syllable of a prayer since the 4th and 5th Centuries. Last week he was telling...
...Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A. McGill, a friend, to remarry. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison loaned them the trimotored Fokker which he always used himself. Pilot was Capt. Harry A. Dinger, "who had more experience in piloting trimotored transports than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir Kuzma. Capt. Dinger took his party up from Boiling Field. At 300 ft., for causes which none could interpret, the plane veered, dove, crashed...
Hoppers. Unquenched by high percentage of failures, two flyers last week winner in the Oakland-Honolulu flight of 1927 (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927), in a specially built plane will attempt to fly from Paris to New York solo. Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, Maine-to-Spain non-stopper (TIME, July 22), has in mind a west-east crossing with Emile H. Burgin...
...packs off Cape North, Siberia, last week. Flyer Eielson knows the Arctic as well as the palms of his slim, steady hands, off one of which (the left) the Arctic cold bit a finger one day when his plane was forced down. For several years he piloted Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, explorer, over icy wildernesses. Their greatest exploit, as great a piece of avigation as ever was done, was flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting uncharted lines of magnetic force, to Spitsbergen (TIME, April 30, 1928). Last year Eielson flew Sir Hubert...
Lowell Smith's Cross. For demonstrating six years ago the feasibility of air refueling, Capt. Lowell H. Smith last week received his Distinguished Service Flying Cross. His flight companion, Lieut. John P. Richter, already had his Cross...