Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying a 615 horsepower Curtiss, was second with an average speed of 231.363 miles an hour. Lieutenant Tomlinson, in an old Curtiss Hawk, was way behind them all. The third American, Lieutenant Cuddihy, came down with engine trouble. So did Captain Ferrarin, famed Rome-to-Tokyo flyer. Lieutenant Adriano Bacula, 218.006 miles an hour, was third...
Alan Cobham, flyer: "When I returned to England from my 28,000-mile round trip flight to Australia I remarked, 'Aviation will make Australia [TIME, Oct. 11]. . . .In Australia it is possible to fly 365 days a year.' Now comes the Rev. Mr. C. Daniels-once a pilot in the Royal Air Force -whose parish in New South Wales is as extensive as all England, with a request that the Anglican Church Missionary Society buy him a plane to expedite his parish visits. His motor car too frequently stalls in mud. His camel is painfully slow. The Society...
...crutches who came ashore. He was Lieut. James H. Doolittle, U.S.A., test pilot of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio). Having had no vacation for nine years, he had taken one last May, going down to Chile with a 175-m. p. h. pursuit plane to be first U. S. flyer across the Andes.- Three days after landing in Santiago, he had fallen from a twelve-foot plane-assembling platform and fretted for a month with two broken femurs in plaster. With neither broken leg yet mended, he had fastened clips on his plaster casts to operate the rudder ,bar. After...
...Polar Flyer Richard Evelyn Byrd: "A letter which has followed me over the U. S. since May 15 has reached me. It contained an odd request from one E. R. Davis, advertising man of Tacoma, Wash., for an exclusive contract to erect signs at the North Pole. He offered to pay for this right $1,000 per annum, from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs...
Nevertheless, the races went on (TIME, Sept. 13). New York National Guardsmen, led by chunky, grinning Lieut. Carl W. Rach of Miller Field, won the National Guard Trophy race. There being no amateur code about flying, Flyer Rach gladly accepted $500 prize money...