Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Wilmer Stultz, 29, of Nassau, L. I., trans-Atlantic air pilot (the Friendship, with Amelia Earhart, June, 1928); at Roosevelt Field, L. I., while stunting with two friends...
...companion aviation country club, the Westchester near Greenwich. Conn., will begin operations within a few weeks. Others already in process of organization will be at Philadelphia, Newport, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ruth Nichols, pilot-saleslady, is now on the Pacific Coast explaining the Aviation Country Club idea...
Last week at Mitchel Field a new Brunner-Winkle biplane was the only contestant present. Its pilots took her up. Then appeared the Guggenheim Fund's pilot, the man whom Fund President Harry F. Guggenheim has fostered for two years in order to focus U. S. attention on aviation?Charles Augustus Lindbergh. With Mrs. Lindbergh he had returned in his motor cruiser Mouette from honeymooning off the New England coast to the estate of Daniel Guggenheim, Fund creator, and was ready for work. He first flew Harry F. Guggenheim for 15 minutes in the Brunner-Winkle craft. Then he took...
Eleven passengers and two pilots serenely started from London to Zurich in the Imperial Airways two-engined biplane City of Ottawa last week. They had little to fear, for Imperial Airways had carried 99,000 persons for 3,800,000 miles and except for one bad accident at the very beginning of its operations, had killed or injured not one person. While flying over the English Channel, as the City of Ottawa had done 100 times before, one of her engines went wrong. The pilot at the controls turned the plane back toward England. Three miles from Dungeness she struck...
Flying with a mechanic and a passenger between Hartford and Willimantic, Conn, last week, Lieutenant Carl Dixon, Connecticut National Guard pilot, discovered a wheel loose and a strut broken on his landing gear. To land meant wreckage. What to do? He climbed to two thousand feet, gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely...