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...John Howard's seat of Bennelong. There, in a community hall, Hawke delighted the faithful with an attack on the government's foreign policy. That was a night for rousing oratory. Today, Hawke will do what he does best: hit strangers between the eyes with his peculiar brand of ocker charm...
Died. Colonel William C. Ocker, 66, "father of blind flying"; in Washington. He early noted that pilots grew accustomed to flying by "feel" and then tended to ignore their instruments. His research led the Army to require blind-flying training for every pilot. He invented the widely used "black box" for ground training-students sat on a swivel chair, peered inside a box at an instrument panel, guided their "plane" without seeing their surroundings...
Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Feb. 28--Major William C. Ocker, Army's oldest pilot in point of service and a pioneer inventor of flying devices, pleaded not guilty today at his general court-martial on charges he "cussed out" a superior officer...
...called to plead after the prosecution's only witness for the day testified that Ocker had spoken disparagingly and insubordinately to his superior officer, Lient, Col. Henry A. Clagett...
When the Wright Brothers were experimenting with their flying contraption at College Park, Md., 25 years ago, they were pestered by a young Army corporal named William C. Ocker who wanted to take lessons. When they made their first successful test flight for the Army at Ft. Meyer, Va., Bill Ocker was there as an armed guard. From a greasemonkey and bamboo polisher at Curtiss Flying School, Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone...