Word: flier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already there, incorporate them into a Danish battalion. His acceptance by the Finns ended a squabble between the Finns and the Danish volunteers, who had been commanded by a Finnish major. Besides these infantrymen, the Danes have a ten-plane air wing in service with the Finns (its ace flier, Lieut. Fritz Rasmussen, was recently shot down in action), 13 surgeons and 40 nurses with the hospital service. Last week Copenhagen began recruiting a labor battalion of blacksmiths, masons, carpenters, metal workers, farm hands. Nearly 10,000 signed up, at $60 a month, before the recruiting office had to close...
...square-chinned, 46-year-old Lawrence Doane Bell of Bell Aircraft, the Airacobra is a thesis in an aeronautics course which began 28 years ago. He left high school in Santa Monica, Calif, to become a mechanic for famed Lincoln Beachey-the "greatest flier" in many a pilot's lexicon-and for his own big brother, Grover Bell. Next year death came to Grover Bell in a crash, and discouraged Larry left the game. But by the time Beachey was killed in 1915 Larry Bell was back as a mechanic for Early-Bird Glenn L. Martin (whose firm...
...Corsair, flown by Captain Edward Samson Alcock, younger brother of the Empire's late famed pioneer Transatlantic Flier Captain Sir John Alcock, was bound last March from Kisumu to Cairo, on the South Africa-to-England run. Young Alcock was rocketing along over the jungle at 200 m.p.h. when he found he was running out of fuel. Instead of flying over Juba, he was 150 miles to the southeast. The Dangu River, swarming with hippos, crocodiles and water snakes, hedged by high and slippery banks, yawned beneath...