Word: crackup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President Childs knew about the crackup. It occurred, he was positive, because the pilot, Staff Sergeant Gordon K. Heritage, USMC, had tried to take off before the rotor was turning at sufficient speed. The ship fell from about 30 ft., wrecking the undercarriage and breaking the rotor blades at the tips when it hit the ground. Otherwise all four blades remained intact...
...other operators of tri-motors were having difficulty in getting under $1 per mi. At the end of the first year, September 1, Ludington had made 8,300 trips, about 28 per day; carried 66,000 passengers (average load 66%) without injury. In the whole year there was no crackup (though four days after the anniversary a pilot smashed a ship and injured himself, after discharging passengers). On occasion, sudden squalls would force planes down ; every emergency landing was made upon an airport. Vidal, executive vice president, and Collins, vice president in charge of operations, like to boast that...
...While Amelia Earhart (Mrs. George Palmer Putnam) was being officially reprimanded by the Department of Commerce for "poor judgment" in her autogiro crackup (TIME, June 22), her husband's publishing company (Brewer, Warren & Putnam) brought out the first book written by Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks. Last week Capt. Hawks returned from Europe, unloaded his plane from the steamer at Quebec, flew it off the pier...
...when it broke in two. In 1929 he was one of two survivors of the crash of a Lufthansa plane in England which killed six. Lately he bought a specially built Lockheed monoplane, flew it from London to Cape Town in 6 1/2 days for a record, despite a crackup in Africa. Last week Commander Kidston and his friend Capt. T. A. Gladstone were flying from Johannesburg to Natal in a Puss Moth biplane. They encountered a duststorm in the Drakensberg Mountains. A wing was wrenched off. Commander Kidston and friend crashed. Both died...
...were to fly 10,000 mi. annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in his 46th year; might be killed in the 668th. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (instruction, sightseeing, joyhopping, et al.) he might anticipate an accident every five years, prepare for death in the 35th. These chances are based on the civil air accident record for July-December 1930 published last week by the Department of Commerce...