Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane circling above the Gettysburg airport, Aviator Paul Charles climbed under the wings, lashed a broken landing gear, returned to guide the machine safely to earth. At 21, Charles is said to be the youngest licensed commercial pilot...
Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, not content to cast 62-year-old eyes on the phenomena of eagles and buzzards (TIME, April 23), demanded the controls of the Fokker monoplane in which she will fly to India and back. Pilot Barnard hesitated, sniffed the gusty wind, complied. Upon landing, he admitted: "The Duchess did extremely well for a day like this...
...Lord's sumptuous private train rushed toward Manchuria, preceded and followed by grim armored pilot trains, he knew that only an attack by enemy spies or some supreme treachery among his followers could deprive him of life or his great wealth. The unexpected and improbable occurred when two Nationalist spies were able to intercept Chang's train with shrewdly tossed bombs, which smashed three railway cars, but injured the War Lord very slightly, according to despatches...
...Friendship's departure had been shrouded in reticence by backers (principally Mrs. Frederick Guest, wife of a Britisher and daughter of Millionaire U. S. Senator Phipps of Colorado) and crew. Of the latter, the only well known professional aviator was Wilmer Stultz, who turned back rather than pilot Mrs. Grayson to almost certain mid-Atlantic destruction last autumn, and who has since flown about the Atlantic seaboard with Charles Levine and Mabel Boll. The other two were just the kind of people who would be likely to depart from a yacht club landing when they wanted...
...October, 1910, as I recall and his pilot was Arch Hoxsey, of the Wright Brothers aeroplane circus, which was then booking exhibitions about the country. The machine was a Wright biplane with the old type of "warping" wings and two propellers. It had a four cylinder water-cooled engine...