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Hero of this Antarctic antic was Chief Airplane Pilot Harold June. With two others he took off in the expedition's big Curtiss Condor, equipped with ski landing-gear, for a reconnaissance flight. In the take-off the wind whipped the skis back until they hung vertically from beneath the plane. Someone had forgotten to attach restraining wires from the toes of the skis to the wing struts. Pilot June was told by radio from the Jacob Ruppert what was wrong. Co-Pilot B. M. Bowlin crawled out on the wing, lost his cap and a glove...
...years ago, they were pestered by a young Army corporal named William C. Ocker who wanted to take lessons. When they made their first successful test flight for the Army at Ft. Meyer, Va., Bill Ocker was there as an armed guard. From a greasemonkey and bamboo polisher at Curtiss Flying School, Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone was scoffed at, he built a little black box full of indicators which not only...
...History 69a Emerson 211Italian 2 Harvard 3Japanese 10a Boylston 25Latin 8 Sever 19Mathematics A I (see footnote*)Dr. Myers, Sec. 1 Sever 18Mr. Curtiss, Sec. 2 Sever 23Mr. Adams, Sec. 3 Sever 24Mathematics 2 I (see footnote*)Professor Beatley Emerson 211Music 2 Music Bldg.Physics 25 Pierce 110Physics 32a Sever 14Psychology 22a Emerson DSlavic 4 Sever 4Sociology 2 Emerson F2 P.M.Philosophy 1a Emerson D, 211TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, (XIV)Botany 7 Gray Herb.Chinese 11 Boylston 25Classical Philology 32 Sever 35Comp. Literature 8 Sever 35Comp. Philology 6 Emerson FEconomics 3 Emerson DEconomics 46 Sever 35Engin. Sciences 11 Pierce 110English 35a Memorial HallEnglish...
...Conf. Group XII Fogg Large Rm.Mr. Whitehill, Sec. M, 13, 25, Conf. Group XIII Fogg Large Rm.History 3a Harvard 5History 24a Andover CHistory 33 Sever 8History 69a Emerson 211Italian 2 Harvard 3Japanese 10a Boylston 25Latin 8 Sever 19Mathematics A I (see footnote*)Dr. Myers, Sec. 1 Sever 18Mr. Curtiss, Sec. 2 Sever 23Mr. Adams, Sec. 3 Sever 24Mathematics 2 I (see footnote*)Professor Beatley Emerson 211Music 2 Music Bldg.Physics 25 Pierce 110Physics 32a Sever 14Psychology 22a Emerson DSlavic 4 Sever 6Sociology 2 Emerson F2 P.M.Philosophy 1a Emerson D, 211TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, (XIV)Botany 7 Gray Herb.Chinese 11 Boylston 25Classical Philology...
Engines. Last week Clarence Duncan Chamberlin marched into print with a charge that the increase in transport accidents since last summer was due to the inability of new twin-engined planes to take off and fly safely on one engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower...