Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Healthy & Wise. Connecticut's governor, John H. Trumbull, shook his head. He would not fly in the Maine State Forestry Department's plane from Moosehead Lake to Augusta. He inspected the plane, took a train to Augusta. Soon the plane fell into Lake Caucomgumoc, killing pilot and passenger...
Another boy constructed a glider and flew 1,000 feet off a California cliff. He was Lloyd W. Bertaud, aged 12. Grown-up he became an Army instructor in the War; an airmail pilot, a stunt flyer. Five years ago he went into the air with Miss Helen Lent of New York, and Belvin W. Maynard, "the flying-parson." The Reverend Maynard shouted a service into their ears; they came down to earth as Mr. & Mrs. Bertaud. Last week Lloyd Bertaud came down again, but not to earth. He splashed into the ocean, disappeared...
...their tickets and keep them as souvenirs. A special sticker for the handbags of the flying tourists is also being prepared in orange and black. . . ." Decorum. Precise advice: "Don't worry. Relax, settle back and enjoy life. If there's any worrying to be done let the pilot do it: that's what he's hired for. . . . Take the turns naturally with the plane. Don't try to hold the lower wing with the muscles of the abdomen- it's unfair to yourself and an unjust criticism of the pilot...
...stumbled up the breakwater steps happy. He had won $30,000. The crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles." Four hours later another foreign baker, George Michel of France, propelled his thick bulk along the same last mile. A hand flashlight played on the tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled out. He had won $7,500. Three hours and a half later, after 19 hours in the chill water, fat William Erickson of New York, came slowly...
...monoplane was winging its way over strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...