Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were not fetched before spring thaws softened the ground. To spare the heroes a break in their tour, the War Department last week announced an expedition to Greenly Island in two amphibian planes commanded by Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Corps. A pilot of the Junkers Corporation was taken along, to be dropped on Greenly Island by parachute if necessary...
Approaching St. Johns, N. B., Major General Fechet's pilot, Lieutenant Muir Fairchild, had an attack of appendicitis. A relief pilot, Lieutenant Elwood Auesada, flew up from Boston and the expedition continued...
Although the Harvard Flying Club has been dowered by entrance into the Hartford races with more publicity than its share during three years of useful activity, such participation is not the peak of the club's achievement during the present year. The value of airplane racing for the college pilot is open to question in the minds of others besides President Angell of Yale, who on Monday, although assigning no reason to his action, forbade Yale undergraduates from entering in any meet for an indefinite length of time...
...airplane and, last week, it was delivered to his pilot by the Fairchild Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, Long Island.* The plane is to be used by the Register and Tribune-Capital to get news and pictures, to promote aviation in Iowa. It has an enclosed cabin of six-passenger capacity, a darkroom for development of photographs, wings that can be folded, a Wright Whirlwind motor with maximum speed of 120 m.p.h. Readers of the Register and Tribune-Capital were offered $100 in prizes to suggest a name for the plane...
...honest, as the traditional Irishman, Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice of transatlantic fame ventured the opinion last week that women are temperamentally unsuited for flying. Hastening to point out that there are exceptions to every rule, he remarked that "when she brings a ship into a field, a woman pilot seems to be possessed with the idea that she is about to come down on the Sahara Desert...