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...little craft with stubby low wings. Into the California dawn roared five such craft: Clair Vance's Flying Wing, Jimmy Wedell, Jimmy Haizlip and Roscoe Turner in Wedell-Williams Speedsters, Lee Gehlbach in a stubby "Gee-Bee" (Granville Bros.). Over the Mojave Desert Vance had to drop out his cockpit awash with gasoline from a leaking tank...
Trapdoors in the floor of the airship were slid forward and athwartships, exposing grey space through a T-shaped aperture slightly larger than the dimensions of the plane. From the rear cockpit Lieut. Daniel Ward Harrigan signalled with his hand. An electric winch began turning. Slowly the trapeze descended, lowering the plane through the T into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever...
Three hours after dark the Myth II dropped her hook off Marblehead. "Howdy, Colonel!" exclaimed Governor Roosevelt next morning when mousey little Edward Mandell House went aboard for a cockpit chat. A fair breeze whiffed the Myth II around Cape Ann, carrying her snugly into Portsmouth harbor. "Wonderful! Perfectly grand! Simply splendid," bubbled Cruiser Roosevelt & crew at the end of their 300-mi. voyage...
...shock-cord crew of ten men stood ready in front of a black-&-white Hailer-Hawk sailplane named Unguentine. In the cockpit sat Warren Edward Eaton, one-time War flyer, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), president of the Soaring Society of America, Inc. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison made a little speech, fired a little pistol. "Walk!" shouted Pilot Eaton to the shock-cord crew. After they had begun to walk, stretching the elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then...
...last March Corporal Torner was riding as a passenger in the rear cockpit behind Pilot Orlo S. Hoffer when, at 2,000 ft., the plane began spinning out of control. Corporal Torner was about to jump when he saw that the plane was spinning because Pilot Hoffer had fallen ill, was slumped heavily against the joystick. Rather than leave the pilot to die. Corporal Torner climbed into the forward cockpit, dragged the inert body from the controls, managed to right the plane just before it would have crashed. Then he climbed the ship to a safe altitude, practiced with...