Search Details

Word: enslow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...companions had scanned the floes in vain for a trace of Varick Frissell, the young Yale graduate who, with 25 others, was missing after the sealing ship exploded. Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell of Manhattan, had sent them up -Balchen, F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow-because he was doggedly hopeful that his son was alive, and because Balchen is probably the ablest Arctic flyer alive. Said he: "Varick will come back all right. . . . He's been through that sort of thing before. I am optimistic, and I believe I have a right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Manhattan and his photographer, Arthur G. Penrod. Forlorn though the hope that they might still be alive, Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell, last week persuaded famed Pilot Bernt Balchen to fly in search of them, in com-pany with his friend F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow. Through weather nearly impassable, Pilot Balchen pushed a Sikorsky amphibion as far as Corner Brook, N. F., about 500 mi. short of the goal. There he had to wait for a special train to arrive with more fuel. There he was passed by crack Pilot Robert H. Fogg, flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: On an Akron Catwalk | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Buenos Aires, refueling in the air en route. After weeks of persistent misadventure, the K took off from New Haven two months ago, landed the same day at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. where the crew of three angrily disbanded. Last week Pilots Garland Peed, Randy Enslow and Jimmy Garrigan took the K off from Roosevelt, refuelled over the field, headed for Havana. Soon they encountered sticky fog, lost their bearings, groped for eight blind hours until the K's fuel supply ran out. Then, without the vaguest idea where they were, they took to their parachutes, alighted near the wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Pouch | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

| 1 |