Word: cavaliere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What three British flying officers-Group Captain George C. Pirie, Aviation Attaché at the Washington Embassy, a Royal Air Force officer and a Canadian aircraft inspector-learned last week about. the crash of Imperial Airways' Bermuda-bound flying boat they kept to themselves. The Cavalier itself lay peacefully...
Imperial's muddle No. 1: its failure to provide the Cavalier'S, engines with the sure-fire exhaust heaters used with U. S. airline carburetors for the past ten years.
That Britain's airlines have not yet whipped the engine-strangling menace of carburetor ice (U. S. lines licked it in 1929 by heaters from the exhaust), was tragically demonstrated one afternoon last week. Less than two hours after Imperial Airways' four-motored flying boat Cavalier had left...
Over a windswept sea 322 miles southeast of Cape May, Cavalier suddenly radioed: "All engines failing-ice. . . . SOS . . . Landed okay . . . sinking."
Tight-lipped Imperial officials refused to tell reporters whether the Cavalier's, engines had carburetor heaters. Little better off than newsmen was the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority, which didn't know either. Under a reciprocal agreement, Imperial's planes are checked for airworthiness by Britain'...