Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend Joe Crane, who runs a parachute school at Roosevelt Field, L. I. went up with him in a plane piloted by Russell T. Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. In the cockpit Crane held a long rope tied to the ripcord on Fulen-wider's parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell...
...second most important event of the Coronation season, the fireworks and illumination of the greatest naval review since the World War. For the scene of the broadcast, British Broadcasting Corp. had chosen the most hallowed deck in the Royal Navy, Nelson's flagship the Victory in whose cockpit he died, lying in dry-dock at Portsmouth, two miles from the five-mile quadruple row of 160 of the world's fighting ships (see map). For announcer the B.B.C. chose Lieut. Commander Tom Woodrooffe, because he had spent the three years of his active service doing staff work...
...nick that his controls were jammed. Cutting his motors for an immediate investigation, he discovered that his radio microphone had fallen off its hook by the seat into the V-shaped well in the wall between the movable control column and the fixed structural parts of the cockpit. Grim-faced at his narrow escape from tragedy, the pilot told his employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines using DC-3's. United Air Lines, whose February crash into San Francisco Bay was still a mystery, quickly took another look at the wreckage in which...
Goggled against the stinging snow and wind that burn your face, you sit tense in a narrow cockpit, legs braced, toes hooked under a crossbar. The tiller jerks and trembles in your hands, intensifying your sensation of speed. A few inches beneath you is the ice, now white and granular, now slick as black glass, racing by to the singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved...
...developed by Transcontinental & Western Air and just installed in all its planes. The new contrivance, everyone was told, permitted a pilot to find an airport no matter how dirty the weather. TWA's Chief Pilot O. W. Coyle took off with a party to prove it. With the cockpit of his big Douglas hooded, he climbed swiftly up through the murk in the deep San Fernando Valley, circled away over the wrinkled mountains which have given the region the name of "the worst flying country in the U. S." Time & again Pilot Coyle intentionally got lost. Each time...