Word: curtins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October Air Transport, a veteran airlines pilot, Pat Curtin, tells some of the airmen's strange stories about migrating birds. Most collisions occur at night or in clouds, when both planes and birds are flying blind. Migrating birds usually fly at night, stopping to feed in daylight. Ornithologists agree that they seem to have a sixth sense which enables them to fly even in "instrument weather." Curtin says that one pilot, chasing flocks of ducks, has seen them take cover in clouds. Once a covey flew round & round inside a small cloud while he circled it in his plane...
...Sense of Altitude. Another Curtin story suggests that birds, like planes, may be downed by wing-icing: a pilot reported that one night, after he had been forced down at Portage, Wis., hundreds of mallard ducks also landed in the streets of the town, their wings heavily ice-coated...
...Pilot Curtin has noticed that birds seem to seek the altitude where they get the most favorable tail winds. His suggestion: let the airlines take soundings to determine how high the birds are flying, then route their planes along other levels...
...summary: G. Sarshman; rf, Knowlton; lf, Coggan; rh, Curtin; ch, Mavor; lh, Coon (Stromberg); ir, Ruckle; cf, Potter; il, Pearson; ol, Kern, Substitutes; Omar, Klobyornson, Mable...
Harvard (6), Worcester Tech (0). L.W., Kern; l.i., Pearson; c., Heisler; r.i., Potter; r.w., Scully; l.h., Corrigan; c.h., Mavor; r.h., Curtin; l.f., Day; r.f., Knowlton; g., Harshman...