Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was reported dead ahead. Airport officials at Key West, anxious for the President's safety, were loth to permit a takeoff. Then the President put it up to his pilot...
...Reuben P. Snodgrass, pilot of the Flying Automobile (TIME, Nov. 4), ran out of gas over Chula Vista, Calif, and landed in a mud flat. Snodgrass was unhurt, but the newfangled contraption was wrecked...
About an hour after the takeoff, Master Sergeant Sutre Paijkull, in a rear seat, idly watched one of the Bristol's two propellers bite into a milky fog. Through a sudden rift he saw a mountain ahead, heard Chief Pilot Nils Werner scream: "Oh, my God." The next sounds he remembered were the soft voices of Italian peasants poking about the wreckage which pinioned him in pain...
...American Airliner, with 25 aboard, had just passed over Gallup, New Mexico when the fire broke out. Pilot Evan Chatfield swung back for the field at Gallup, praying for time to make it. He did. Fire trucks quickly snuffed out the blaze. The damage was small-only a foot-square hole in the plane. But the near-catastrophe frightened the airlines...
...Pilot Martin and Navigator Thompson were not in the least abashed by their testimony. In reply to the question of one exasperated CAB examiner, Martin replied coolly, "Well, I still think we did all right...