Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airplane, the night roared with cheers. Milling crowds, pelting roses, shouting greetings, escorted the pilgrims to the Navy Club, where a midnight banquet awaited them. This feast lasted well into the dawn, when newspaper photographers swarmed in to begin the new day with pictures. Sleepy though he was, Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan obligingly posed in the cockpit of the N-25, Rolls-Royce-motored seaplane which had carried the party back to Spitsbergen from a forced bivouac on the ice-floes 157 miles from the Pole...
This time, however, it strikes nearer home. Under AERONAUTICS, appears the following: "Hitherto, no seaplane has flown for more than 15 hours at a time, etc. I, personally happened to have been the Commanding Officer and First Pilot of Navy Seaplane No. 3589 F-S-L type, which left the water at 11 00 a. m. on Apr. 21, 1919, at Hampton Roads Va., and flew continuously until 8:12 a. m. the following dav, having remained in the air 20 hours and 12 minutes, establishing a world's record for seaplanes which I believe has not since been...
First there was Roald Amundsen, intrepid wanderer in frozen places, who had planted the flag of Norway on the nether extremity of the globe. Then there was Riiser Larsen, his airplane pilot, and Lincoln Ellsworth, who piloted another airplane. Ellsworth, 45, son of an Ohio magnate, who first tasted the Arctic on an extensive survey for the Canadian Pacific R. R. in the Peace River area of Northwestern Canada, jumped to the tropics and reported on animal and vegetable life in Yucatan for the Smithsonian Institution, then north again to Baffin's Bay for the American Museum of Natural...
...eight hours indicated water, a "lead" in the pack ice. Down nosed Amundsen in the N-25, the N24 following suit. Suddenly, a break in the steady roar of the motors, as startling as a shout, smote Amundsen's ear. N-25's engine had died. The pilot, Riiser-Larsen, now must land wherever he could. God help him ! He made the water, but not the main "lead." The plane torpedoed into a hummock, quivered and lay still, stuck fast...
...house is to be built in an ordinary fuselage 45 ft. long, supported on the ground by an immense undercarriage fitted with 44 by 10 in. tires, supported in the air by wings spanning 60 ft. There will be cabin accommodations (including berths) for six passengers, pilot, mechanic, cook. Features are electric lighting, heating from the engine exhausts, and electric stove and refrigerator system in the cook's galley, typewriter, writing desk...