Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Brooks, chief test pilot of the Stout-Ford Airplane Co., carrier of Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico, plunged into the sea off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., in a "flivver" plane of his own design. The wreckage was found afloat next day, but of Pilot Brooks there was no trace. He had hoped to see the day when his air "flivvers" would be in the hands of millions...
...streamlined, insulated "cape" over the pilot's cockpit to protect him from the terrific winds of high altitudes...
Married. Mrs. Lucy Banning Ross, of Los Angeles, Calif., to Seteuzo Oto, a Japanese, her fourth husband; in Seattle. Separated. James H. R. Cromwell, son of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia, and his wife, Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, famed speedboat pilot, daughter of the late Horace E. Dodge, automobile manufacturer...
Many a hapless pilot has crashed, died in flames ; many a plane burst afire in midair. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, famed inventor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., believes the fire menace mastered. His company has developed a Diesel airplane engine. Fuel oil for Diesel engines is non-inflammable...
...heart. But with morning came relief. At that time I remembered suddenly, they were filling in the last of the made land in the Back Bay. I got a special interview with the Mayor, and he ordered a fleet of dump carts to leave for Cambridge, with me as pilot...