Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sportsman Pilot, a monthly magazine devoted to the activities of amateur flyers, took the air last week. On shiny paper cut slightly larger than this page, Editor Darwin J. Adams and Managing Editor Franklin Pinkham printed articles and pictures calculated to make as-yet-wingless readers look skyward. Publicist Fitzhugh Green tried to explain why Commander Byrd is in the Antarctic. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, discoursed on woman's status in aviation...
...kites, pelicans and buzzards. The tenor of the whole magazine was calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...
Secretary of the Navy. Charles Francis Adams of Boston fits the sea. sentimentally, as snugly as a well-made yachting cap in a stiff breeze. But to pilot the International Cup Defender Resolute to victory, as Mr. Adams did do in 1920, and to guide the destiny of the U. S. Navy from a swivel chair in Washington, as Mr. Adams will do, are two wide-apart things...
Again the press whooped for heroism but the hero and all other airmen knew that he had merely taken the cure prescribed by the U. S. Army Air Service-that a pilot who has cracked-up must make another flight at the first possible moment, to restore self-confidence. There was no need, however, for Miss Morrow to take the cure-except to be sporting and to do aviation a great and good turn...
...pilot of the rearmost glider cut loose from the train and coasted comfortably to earth. Then the pilot of the other trailer did likewise. Finally the motored plane landed...