Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hodgkins, Ill. Edwin Weatherdon, Chief Pilot of American Airways, onetime-New York University fullback, crashed to death in a blind-flight training plane...
Such were last week's aviation casualties. Because the danger of flight is not willingly publicized by aviation companies, few laymen can get exact information about the risks involved. Last week the risks were discussed in an article entitled "Flying Is Still Dangerous" in The American Mercury by Kenneth Brown Collings, Wartime Navy flyer, onetime mail pilot, flight instructor and airport manager, author of Flight Hazard. Some of Author Collings' statements: Average age of airline pilots is 32. Average men of 32 engaged in normal ground occupations die at the rate of less than...
...scheduled U. S. air transport lines the extra hazard per hour of passenger flight is approximately 66 times that of normal ground occupations. Scheduled air transport in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands approaches that of the U. S. in safety. In Great Britain it is "possibly twice as hazardous"; in France and Mexico, at least five times as hazardous...
...tunnels and other elaborate testing-devices make it the world's most completely equipped aeronautical research plant, NACA's Langley Memorial Laboratory conducts many a history-making aeronautical experiment. Created by act of Congress in 1915 "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight," NACA has 15 members who serve without compensation. Of its $900,000 general appropriation for fiscal 1933, NACA spent $600,043 for "personal services," $1,545 for "transportation of things," $960 to rent an office in Paris. Of President Wilson's original appointees, there remain only Dr. Ames...
...filers, Captain Maurice Rossi and Lieutenant Paul Codos, were forced to terminate their trans-Atlantic dash at the air field where last summer they started their record-breaking non-stop flight to Syria...