Word: goldsborough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goodwill Tour. In the course of a tour of 100 smalltown Exchange Clubs, to demonstrate the dependability of aviation for passenger travel, Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* took off from Cleveland for Keene, N. H. In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours...
...Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator aboard Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between Roosevelt Field and Harbor Grace, N. F. in December 1927. The plane was to have attempted a flight to Denmark. Frank Goldsborough qualified for his pilot's license last November, established a junior record for transcontinental flight two months ago (TIME...
...president, Engineer Hoover Jr. will serve Aeronautical Radio Inc. in advisory capacity. The bulk of the work falls to Executive Vice President Paul Goldsborough, formerly vice president of Universal Aviation Corp., with headquarters in Washington. Other officers: Thorp Hiscock of Boeing Air Transport, vice president; H. C. Leuteritz of Pan American Airways, secretary-treasurer...
...from New York to Los Angeles, begun on Monday and completed Sunday, is not in itself remarkable. But if the flyer be the young son of a crack airman who met spectacular death; and if the boy seeks a "junior speed record," public fancy is captured. Last week Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* crossed the U. S. in 34 hr. 3 min. flying time, in a biplane named American Boy. Previous "record" of 48 hr., set last year by 18-year-old Richard James, was spread over a month elapsed time. Young Goldsborough's flight...
...Brice Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator on Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between New York and Newfoundland at the start of a trans-Atlantic flight (TIME...