Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bernard monoplane arrived in Manhattan with its pilot Rene LeFevre on the Leviathan, to attempt the New York-to-Paris flight...
...shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot, 1926 Harmon Trophyist. Backed by the Chicago Daily News, he will try for a standing prize of $25,000 for the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo...
Well within Frederick Handley Page's arm-reach last week was a $100,000 prize put up by the Guggenheim Fund for a plane which best promised safety in the hands of even an inexpert pilot...
...overcome the beginning of a spin the pilot must use his ailerons (small auxiliary wings fixed in the back edge of the wings). When one aileron rises, its opposite drops. That gives an opposed effect which ordinarily permits banking and turning from a straight level flying course. It also overcomes spins, if the pilot is alert and maneuvers quickly. But at the stalling angle the ailerons work sluggishly when...
Shirley Short, U. S. Air Mail pilot; Pelletier ("Paris to Peking") D'Oisy; Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; Lady Mary ("London to Capetown") Bailey...