Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Society of Mechanical Engineers estimates that of all the people in the United States only 40,000 are mentally and physically fit to pilot planes...
...Tempelhofer Field-once the parade ground of the ex-Kaiser's famous guard regiments -as Berlin's airport, members of the municipal government went up in eleven airplanes. The eleventh machine crashed on landing, killing two city fathers and injuring a third official and the pilot. This was an unfortunate though dramatic finale to a celebration intended to advertise the Tempelhofer as the biggest airport in Europe. Almost on the same day at Cracow, Poland, a military plane lost a wing and fell through the roof of an apartment house. The gasoline tank exploded, killing...
Provided any British helicopter (with pilot) attains an altitude of 2,000 feet-and, in addition, shows ability to hover and to remain stationary in the air for half an hour in a 20 mile wind-its inventor will receive a ?50,000 prize, the British Air Ministry announced. A man in the British Royal Air Force walked slowly into a revolving airplane propeller and was instantaneously killed. Medical opinion attributes the accident to a curious form of hypnotism...
...Lengthy studies of this problem by the Army Air Service culminated in success last week at Mitchel Field, L. I. A large ring was placed on the upper wing of an airplane and a hook of corresponding dimensions was hung from the passenger gondola of an airship. The airplane pilot regulated his speed till it was no greater than that of the dirigible and was picked up and carried along without the slightest difficulty. The apparatus will be modified in detail only, and will permit both the picking up and taking off of airplanes...
President Bernardes of Brazil: "I sent a message of congratulation to The New York World, which promoted the New York-to-Rio flight of Pilot Hinton. I referred to aviation as 'that enterprise in which the Americans are unsurpassed- having given wings...