Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murky, blowy morning, last week, half a hundred people huddled quietly at the Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I. Some were Colombian civilians, others U. S. aviators. They were waiting for a new Curtiss Falcon seaplane to be drawn out of her hangar and for the arrival of the pilot. He came, a small, slender young man. The aviators hailed him as "Benny." They knew him as the gas boy who filled their tanks at Curtiss Flying Field while he learned flying; the civilians respectfully called him Lt. Benjamin Mendez, of the Colombian Air Service. The seaplane...
...motored plane was a system of double planes, resembling box-kites fastened one to another in the general shape of the letter T. A very light and powerful petrol motor drove two light propellers at high speed. The pilot sat at the juncture of the T. On its first recognized flight (in France) that Santos-Dumont T-plane flew 220 metres in 21 seconds...
Under the present plans this trophy will be given to that club pilot who during the academic year makes the best record in the three following divisions: first the greatest number of hours flown in the Club plane; second the best record for safety; and third the best record for attendance and efficiency on the days on which he is on duty at the airport...
Saturday's starting lineup is not yet fixed one wing and the pilot position being the doubtful points R. H. O'Connell '30 is practically sure to start at one end, but the other berth is being disputed by F. A. Pickard '29 and J. G. Douglas '30. Either one may get the call Saturday. A rumor around Soldiers Field insists that George Crawford ocC will be directing the eleven when it faces the Red and Blue, but the chances are equally good that Coach Horween may send in E. T. Putnam '30 whose stellar work was so effective against...
Said Owner Tucker: "Boys, there is the greatest pilot you ever saw!" Whereupon he returned to the Yankee Doodle to salvage yet a third conqueror of the airs above the continent It was none other than the ship's mascot?a "hot dog" skillfully converted by the deft use of toothpicks for legs and tail and a ribbon about the neck into an esthetic complement...