Word: licensee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I am very sorry to see the item in the Aeronautics section of your April 22 issue, under the caption "Bungles.". . . You say that the accident was inexcusable. Maybe so-but it was unavoidable, nevertheless, so far as the pilots of both ships were concerned. The thing, perhaps, that...
Citizen Calvin Coolidge, in spite of himself, was back in the news last week. The New York Evening Post advertised and republished his article on national defense. The National Geographic Society elected him a director. And he went trout-fishing in Connecticut without a license.
The last was not as bad as it sounds. He caught 16 trout, weighing about 15 Ibs., but he caught them in the privately-stocked preserve of onetime (1911-29) Senator George Payne McLean near Simsbury. Fishing without a license on a private preserve breaks no Connecticut law. And, anyway...
Long Shots. In Washington, D. C., William Fox was given a license to use a special wavelength for recording sound-shots over long distances. A Fox company, taking a singing picture in the Fiji Islands, prepared to send their work to Hollywood by radio.
Although there are insufficient flyers in the U. S. to man the planes produced, and although this insufficiency has begun to thwart sales, the Department of Commerce has all along fought scamp training schools. Obvious reason: poorly trained pilots endanger life and property, in the air, on the ground. Last...