Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arctic Circle kept its secret a fourth week. With Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway, and his air pilot, Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan, still missing somewhere up towards the Pole (TIME, June 1 et seq.) the Norwegian steamer Ingcrtrc, sent to rescue them, dropped anchor in a Spitzbergen fjord. A party of aviators aboard her unlashed their two seaplanes and waited for Amundsen's base ship, the Fram, to come back from the icefloes with a weather report before taking off for a flight to inspect horizons further north...
Countered, last week, one Charles M. Manly, pilot of the plane in Langley's experiments: "Launch the Langley machine from its original catapult and let it write its own label. . . . Test it in its original condition of 1903 and invite the world to hear it speak...
...officially designated, attained a height of 14,000 ft, made a speed of 125 mi. per hour and climbed more than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision ahead; its retractible gear allowing the plane to alight on ship deck, on land, on sea, or to roll up a beach under its own power; with its photographic, wireless and heating arrangements, the Loening is the last word in airplane construction...
Coach Lake's nine will go on the field today with a leader for the first time. M. F. Amsden '25 has recently been elected captain of the outfit and will pilot his team from his position in left field. Amsden has been with the Seconds for three years and was one of the squad's batting leaders last year...
That was the idea of Captain A. W. Stevens, official photographer of Dr. A. Hamilton Rice's expedition, and his pilot, Lieut. Walter Hinton, famed flier of the Atlantic-crossing NC-4. Back in Manhattan last week, Captain Stevens told how he aiid Hinton, the latter suffering continually from malaria, flew from Manaos, on the Rio Negro, up the Rio Branco to the Rio Uraricoera, to the Rio Parima, to the Parima's source, hitherto unvisited by whites. With an aerial camera in their seaplane, they mapped a 1,000-mile stretch accurately for the first time, returning...