Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fuselage rests solidly on a metal pontoon, and with the landing gear drawn up, the craft is a seaplane. But let the pilot press on a button, and a small electric motor, driven by a storage battery, releases landing wheels at the side of the pontoon, draws them out and downward and in eleven seconds the craft is a land plane. In the first tests the amphibian made 30 landings alternately on land and water without a hitch...
...hour, and has all the man- euvrability of the best military airplanes. But next to its amphibious characteristic, the most interesting feature of the plane is the inversion of the motor. This is a 400 horsepower twelve cylinder Liberty, turned upside down so as not to impede the pilot's vision...
...Service during the War and is now reporter of the Military Aviation budget, announced the completion of tests of a "ghost plane" which will fly pilotless 100 miles out of sight and rain death on enemy armies and cities in the next war. A gyroscopic stabilizer re- places the pilot for the maintenance of equilibrium.' Wireless guides the plane at will and makes it land precisely at a given spot, however far away from the point of control. The discharge of powerful bombs will also be controlled by wireless. Similar experiments are being conducted in England...
While thousands of bathers disported themselves gaily on the sands and waters of Rockaway Beach, L. I., a foolhardy pilot flew low over their heads, performed hazardous stunts, created panic. Men cursed and shook angry fists; women shrieked; children ran howling .to their nurses. People in bathing knew not whether to seek safety on shore or under water. No wonder that strong protests were made by William T. Collins, Acting Mayor of New York, and that the Commandant of the Naval Reserve made a thorough investigation. But it was not the Naval Air Reserve that was responsible for the foolhardy...
Deputy Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor, crashed to earth in an airplane at Bamberg while on his way from Berlin to Niirnberg to attend an aviation meet. The Prince, an experienced War pilot, was not seriously injured; the machine...