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...aviator before and during the World War, Fritz Wilhelm Hammer in the years that followed made for himself a place in German civil aviation equivalent to that occupied by the late Captain Ed Musick in the U. S. In South America he established and flew lines in Brazil and Ecuador. When Dornier needed a pilot for its mammoth DO-X, Fritz Hammer was recalled to take the great twelve-motor airplane on its long transatlantic trips. Last week from the rocky Cordilleras came the details of 49-year-old Captain Hammer's last flight...
Fire. Seven thousand miles away in Washington, shocked by the line's second and by far most costly fatal accident,* Pan American's president, Juan Terry Trippe, sorrowfully announced: "Everyone connected with Pan American Airways is grieved beyond expression. . . . The death of Captain Musick and his crew is an irreparable blow to our company and will be a distinct loss to American aviation. Captain Musick contributed much to American prestige in the air." In President Trippe's opinion, "The Samoan Clipper was destroyed by fire of unknown origin . . . incidental to the discharge of fuel." What caused...
...meticulously efficient was Ed Musick that his concentration on safety in the minutest flight detail was a legend in U. S. aviation. He would not tie up to a buoy unless it was tested. To many an aviator his amazing good judgment made the Pago Pago accident something of an enigma. It is established that Captain Musick could have landed his heavily loaded ship in Pago Pago harbor. On the other hand, so precarious is fuel dumping as a method of lightening a plane, that it is forbidden by the Bureau of Air Commerce on all U. S. passenger-carrying...
...recent death of Edwin C. Musick, pilot of the airplane that fell into the Pacific near Pago Pago, is a blow to aviation's progress, as American flying has lost one of its oldest and ablest servants, Musick made his first flight in 1913 in a homemade plane, and during the World War he enlisted in the aviation section of the signal corps, and subsequently served as an instructor in the army. He was one of the three Americans who have received the Harmony trophy; Charles Lindbergh and Wiley Post being the other...
...Musick made initial flight for Pan-American airways from Key West to Havana, and flew the first RI-motor airplane ever to be used on an airline. Recently he completed twenty-five years of perfect record flying, without accident or casualty. Always conservative, intelligently cautions, and yet daring within the safeguards of common sense, he loyally and effectively advanced Pan Air's safety record and the general progress of aviation. Fortunately there are other like him who will continue the fine tradition which he established, so that his untimely death will not stop America's forward advances in safe flying...