Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authorities knew that the message came from a tiny emergency radio set aboard the Dawn. So many hours had she been missing that they knew she was down at sea. Rising, falling somewhere on the winter waves were Mrs. Grayson, Norwegian Pilot Oskar Omdal, Navigator Brice Goldsborough, Fred Keohler, Wright engine expert...
...huge crowd (more than 25,000) began to mill around eager to get good positions. Nine Mexican Army airplanes hopped off to meet him. One of the planes doing stunt flying went into a nose dive and crashed several hundred yards in front of the Presidential stand. The pilot was not injured. Federal soldiers constantly arrived. . . . 10,000 men in and around the inclosure. . . . Returning scout planes landed at 11:42 without having sighted Col. Lindbergh. . . . Silence almost approaching gloom prevailed over the great crowd as the 25th hour passed with Lindbergh's whereabouts unknown. . . . The authorities set fire...
...Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation becomes increasingly mobile. Last week was delivered to F. Trubee Davison a new amphibian, capable of 700 miles flight, carrying three: The pilot, the Assistant Secretary, the Assistant Secretary's secretary...
...Davison is one of a none too copious group of public officials trained to his task. He was a War flyer; continued his practical interest in aviation through other political occupations; was summoned to the pilot seat of Army flying. Commander Byrd and nearly every other famed aviator in U. S. Mr. Davison knows personally. His home sheltered Charles Augustus Lindbergh from the blizzard of publicity which beset him on arrival from Europe. He flies to keep appointments, virtually commuting by air between his place on Long Island and his desk in Washington. The new ship, a Loening plane similar...
Remedy: Regulation by the Department of Commerce of flying schools. Strict regulation of qualifications required of a pilot in commercial flying and especially in passenger carrying. "A number of States have adopted the Department of Commerce regulations, but the majority have either no regulation whatsoever or have enacted special rules which will, in the end, only strive to retard aeronautical development...