Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force Base, N.C., carrying a load of paratroopers for a practice jump. A flock of starlings, startled from the trees, swept across its nose. They were drawn in by the thrashing propellers. The carburetor air intakes of both engines suddenly became choked with dead birds, the engines faltered. Pilot Robert Kilpatrick shouted to a crewman to push the jump bell...
...pines snagged the plane's wings. The C82 lurched, crashed, burst into flames. Pilot Kilpatrick and two crewmen died in their seats. A pilot instructor and a lieutenant observer got out. Cool-headed Sergeant Hodgkiss also tumbled out, unhurt. Said he of his thoughts in the few seconds before the crash, "I just sat there and thought about my wife, Pearl Lucille. We've only been married nine months...
Complaints in the Morning. More than four years ago Panayiota Theofanous, a pretty soft-voiced Nicosia housemaid, caught the fancy of John Gow, a Scots R.A.F. pilot. Airman Gow was killed six months before Panayiota gave birth to a boy in the Nicosia Government Hospital. The rosy baby weighed 7 Ibs. 9 oz., and had eyes as blue as any Scotsman...
Lean, long-faced Hugh Campbell had moved up to administrative jobs before the shooting started in World War II. As Director of Training Plans he was general manager of the Commonwealth's pilot-training program for a year and a half. Then, as a member of the Air Staff, he saw the R.C.A.F. in action from Britain to India. In the North African desert, his jeep ran over a land mine. Lucky Campbell's worst injury was a broken eardrum (which has healed...
Died. Victor Fleming, 60, top-drawer Hollywood director (Joan of Arc); of a heart attack; near Cottonwood, Ariz. Fleming made his reputation directing Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow (Test Pilot, Captains Courageous, Bombshell), won a 1939 Oscar for Gone With the Wind...