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...newsmen and other guests in a Curtiss Condor which flew over Newark Airport one afternoon last week, walked forward to the control compartment to see what was going on. Ordinarily they would have seen a somewhat annoyed pilot working the controls to compensate for the shift of weight caused by their movements. Instead they saw Pilot Ralph G. Lockwood comfortably sitting with legs crossed, hands clasped behind his head. The control stick in front of him moved slightly fore & aft, side-to-side; the rudder pedals budged now and then. The big Condor flew smoothly on, directly over a predetermined...
Army and Navy planes have been experimenting with the "iron pilot" for several years, but this was the first commercial installation. A sharp-eyed reporter for the Baltimore Sun found the newly equipped Condor at the Berliner-Joyce aircraft plant, shrewdly wrote that Eastern Air Transport proposed to use it in regular service. The transport company was deeply embarrassed because it had not yet applied to the Department of Commerce for permission to use the robot. To check further gossip and placate the Department, it conducted last week's public flight, stated with great emphasis that it was "preliminary...
Fire. A big Curtiss Condor of Eastern Air Transport, New York-bound from Richmond with 18 passengers, was 20 min. past Baltimore when smoke began rolling through the cabin. A poorly insulated heater pipe in a rear compartment had set the fuselage afire. Hostess Elizabeth Westwood (all E. A. T. planes carry young and personable women as hostesses) circulated among the passengers, assuring them there was no grave danger, while Co-Pilot G. J. McDonald fought the flames with fire extinguishers. Pilot E. C. Kondat raced to an emergency landing at Fort Hoyle. Md., sideslipping the plane to blow...
Last month the only female California condor in captivity, and one of the very few condors now alive anywhere, stretched her broad black wings to their loft. utmost and otherwise behaved proudly. She had laid...
Last week's egg, pale green and about 4 in. long, lay in a special incubator while Dr. Mann hoped. Soon, forth should come a white-downed condor chick...