Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dieudonné ("Doudou") Coste, 54, pioneer distance flyer (first from Paris to New York, in 1930). Onetime Hero Coste, bravoed in Manhattan as a counterspy in 1945, was now arrested in France as a wartime spy for Germany and a collaborator since 1940. One of his alleged services: organizing the first Nazi spy units...
...Alaskan aviation was zooming. Thanks to the Army's frantic wartime construction, and to war surplus sales (at which an ex-service flyer could buy a DC-3 for $25,000), aviation had finally come of age. The airplane had long been a versatile beast of burden in roadless Alaska. But as late as 1939 northern flying had been a primitive business with no fields capable of accommodating a modern transport, no directional radio navigation aids, little radio communication...
...story is told in flashbacks by Navy Flyer Van Johnson to a notably patient fellow derelict, as they drift along the Pacific in a disabled plane. As a small-town boy Van wanted to be a doctor, and spent a lot of time with the little girl next door. He drank down the wild stories of his seafaring uncle (Thomas Mitchell) as eagerly as the uncle drank whiskey. The uncle's tales of the uncharted, paradisiacal island "High Barbaree" especially fascinated the boy; High Barbaree became his byword for all he ever hoped to do and be. While...
...Cohu (rhymes with show-you), T.W.A. had an experienced pilot at the stick. A World War I Navy flyer, Cohu first peddled aviation securities before he moved into the operating end of the industry. In 1930 he started Interstate Airlines, now part of Eastern Air-Lines, moved on to become a director and president of Aviation Corp. in its early, money-losing days. With Jack Northrop, Cohu organized Northrop Aircraft, Inc. in 1939, served as its board chairman and general manager until he resigned a fortnight...
...break Howard Hughes's round-the-world record of 91 hours, 14 minutes. He bought an A26 Douglas attack bomber, removed some 8,000 Ibs. of armor plate, crammed the plane full of gas tanks. He hired William P. Odom, a wartime transatlantic ferry pilot and China "Hump" flyer, to fly trie plane, and T. Carroll Sallee as engineer. Reynolds himself, who holds a private pilot's license, was "navigator," a euphemistic way of spelling passenger...