Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas" Sirs: In describing the Robert E. Lee's race from New Orleans to St. Louis (TIME, Aug. 5) you say that the "Texas" is the pilot house. . . . Every Mississippi steamer has a pilot house but only the larger packets have a Texas. The small packets and tow boats do not have a Texas. The pilot house is built on top of the Texas. The members of the crew are quartered in the Texas on the large packets, leaving the cabin entirely for passengers. On small packets and tow boats the crew are quartered in the cabin. . . . E. CARROLL...
...cars hauled, 555; average day's run, 320 mi. On its last run into Kansas City, No. 4113, pulling perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface of 5,450.9 sq. ft. this engine developed a tractive effort of 59,800 Ib. While 60 different engine crews were operating No. 4113 to make...
...incident contained irony. The Assistant Secretary had prepared a speech on flying safety to deliver over the radio. Later he did speak, declaring that the U. S. Government takes more pains to protect the flying public than any other nation in the world-by establishing airways, inspecting aircraft, licensing pilots, rating flying schools. He warned passengers to make their pilot produce his Department of Commerce license...
...subsidiary of Aviation Corp. of Delaware whose agent Mr. Eielson now is. He will not again accompany Sir George Hubert Wilkins to Antarctica this winter, as planned. Nor is it yet certain that Sir Hubert himself will go, what with Zeppelin activities and the difficulties of getting a Polar pilot as expert, efficient, companionable as Pilot Eielson...
Died. Ambrose Monell, 23, of Manhattan, son and heir of the late nickel tycoon (founder and longtime head of the National Nickel Co.) ; near Armonk, N. Y. when an airplane which he and a friend had chartered for a week-end trip crashed, killing both passengers and the pilot...