Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shattered plane lay on its back in two feet of water, its right wing smashed, its engine crushed back into the cockpit. Pinned inside was the body of Wiley Post. Someone found a flashlight in the cabin, outlined the wreckage in its small glare. Finally Eskimo villagers pried the ship apart, got Post's body out. A shattered wrist watch had stopped...
...Gehlbach wrestling with the control stick, vainly trying it at every conceivable position," Commander De Witt C. Ramsey, the Navy's official observer, told newsmen afterward. "Using an old pilot's trick, he even stood upright in the cockpit, hoping the wind pressure on his body would right the plane. Finally, at 2,000 ft., with the earth rushing at him 200 ft. a second, he bailed out and descended easily while the plane hurtled into a nearby pine tree...
...uprush of air whirled the little plane around until it was spinning free. What happened after the pole was removed left observers spellbound. Clockwork mechanism in the model's fuselage, set in advance, was timed to actuate the controls and set tiny lights flashing if the the cockpit. The model's ingenious efforts to recover from the spin began in orthodox fashion, with reverse rudder. Simultaneously, a green light flashed. Then a red light flashed, and the flippers flopped down for the nose dive and pullout...
...John have loved to be with us?" The two passengers had tickets for all six seats in the plane, explained that four friends were expected. The friends never arrived. After the take-off the girls complained of a draught, asked Pilot Kirton to close the door between cockpit and cabin. As he headed over the Channel in bumpy air, he opened the door again, looked back to see if his passengers were comfortable. The two girls were gone...
...Balkan frontiers against aggression by any Balkan State, and to punish any Balkan State which may join any State whatsoever which attacks a Balkan State. Unless they turn out to be scraps of paper, the Balkan Pact and protocols mean cast iron peace in Europe's inflammatory cockpit...