Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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McGlone is slated to replace Cheek today, and Moseley is likely to see considerable action in the pilot's position. These two players have been taking turns all this week at calling signals for Team A. Both have advanced ahead of Stafford, starter of the Yale game last fall and first string substitute until a fortnight...
Some two weeks ago Pilot Charles H. Ames of the U. S. Night Air Mail Service left the field at New Brunswick, N. J., and headed for Bellefonte, Pa. The noise of his plane faded to a faint jarring, then less, then nothing. That was the last that anybody heard of Pilot Ames. He never reached Bellefonte. As far as appearances went, he might have tilted off into interstellar space. A towerman on the Pennsylvania said that he had seen a plane come out of a fog bank with all its lights lit, waver for a moment, vanish again. Farmers...
Suddenly a telephone rang in the judges' stand, a stammering voice said that there had been an accident. The crowd took up the rumor, as crowds will; people excitedly told each other that all 16 had crashed down together on the bleak Hempstead Moors and that all the pilots were dead. Pilot Basil Rowe, flying a Thomas Morse 54E plane with an Aero- marine motor, contradicted this extravagance by buzzing in a winner with an average speed of 102.9 miles an hour; Pilot W. L. Gilmore, in another Morse, was second; one of the 16 did not return...
...ambulance went out to get Chamberlain. The next race was called-event for two, three, and four-passeger planes flown by civilians. Pilot C. S. ("Casey") Jones, hawk-faced, vigilant, won it in a Curtiss Oriole...
...trim green Breguet planes, entered by the French Ministère de la Guerre, won the Liberty Motors Trophy Race (for observation planes) by a piece of teamwork, common enough in bicycle and running races, but unheard-of in the air. The first Breguet (Pilot, Captain d'Oisy) roared into the lead as a pacemaker, led off U. S. Pilot Henderson, while the second (Pilot, Captain Lemaitre) shot from behind...