Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aviator Sadi Lecointe, famed speed pilot, volunteered for service in Morocco...
...airplane motor is still unreliable?a delicate, quivering mechanism. Its vibration is so intense that there is little guaranty under such strain that it will remain intact over considerable distances. The airplane game depends greatly at present upon the flying ability of the man in the pilot's seat. Our daily trips to Chicago and Cleveland are about 90% skill of the men at the throttle. Stunt flying, as I see it, is about 98% of the same element...
...Lafayette Escadrille was formed in Paris for service in Morocco. Granville A. Pollock of New Orleans and Charles W. Kerwood of Philadelphia volunteered to pilot bombing airplanes, and Charles Sweeney and Paul Rockwell, U. S. veterans of the Foreign Legion, volunteered as observers. Much comment was heard regarding the efficient and up-to-date methods by which Abd-el-Krim is conducting his campaign. His staff work seems of a high order, each attack evidently being-planned with great care and almost invariably at the weakest point of the French positions, made weak, of course, by the staff...
Returned. For "excellent behavior" displayed in fishing his two companions, Lieutenant Dietrichsen and Mechanic Omdahl, out of polar pools into which they slipped while walking over floes from their crippled seaplane to rejoin Explorer Amundsen, the Cabinet Council of Norway last week conferred a gold medal on Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth, only U.S. member of the Amundsen polar flight which returned in safety a fortnight ago to Oslo (TIME, July...
...Grand Hotel, all traffic in the streets coming to a halt while the cortege passed. Out on a balcony, Amundsen smiled his thanks; soon after, he sat down with the others to a handsome luncheon furnished by the Aero Club. More speeches; The Star Spangled Banner in honor of Pilot Ellsworth...