Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Above San Diego last week two planes collided. Both pilots hastily climbed from their cockpits, felt for their parachutes, jumped. Lieut. W. L. Cornelius was too hasty. His parachute caught on the instrument board and he was dragged to his death with the two machines which crashed, locked together. So died the second of the army's famous "Three Musketeers" (TIME, Sept. 24). At Mines Field Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was for a time the leader of this group of which Lieut. Irving A. Woodring is now the sole survivor...
Thirty-eight thousand feet above Dayton, Ohio, Capt. A. W. Stevens and Lieut. J. H. Doolittle were taking photographs. When their instruments indicated that they were flying toward the city at the rate of a mile a minute, they were in reality being carried away by a head wind of 115 miles an hour. Soon the thermometer registered 57° below zero and instruments ceased to work at all. Finally the oxygen line to Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long...
...long (763 feet) and her name is Count Zeppelin, nyth rigid airship of famed Zeppelin progeny. Last week, out of her hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, she emerged for her maiden flight, a short one. Her pilot was her designer-Dr. Hugo Eckener. She carried a crew of 30 and Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. Navy, lord of the Los Angeles...
...ship-to-shore mail plane catapulted from the liner lie de France, flown by Naval Lieut. Louis Demougeot, forced down at sea, was rescued by the British trawler Children's Friend. Temporarily the ship-shore service has been discontinued...
Last week the National Air carnival at Mines field reached its climax. A Navy aviator climbed 10,000 feet in four-and-a-half minutes. An Army flier, Lieut. J. J. Williams was killed in formation stunt flying, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh took his place, continued Immelman turns, loops, barrel rolls. But a Navy trio gave a superior exhibition of stunts...