Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stamps would be issued in connection with the night air mail. Subsequent inquiry disclosed that a new stamp, in denominations of 8, 16 and 24?, was issued for this service on June 15. Eight-cent stamps are green and show a propeller; 16? stamps are blue and carry a pilot's brevet; 24? stamps are red an portray an airplane...
High over the Bay of Bengal sped a lone seaplane, bound for the coast of Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...
...chagrin to stamp collectors that no special stamps will be issued. The westward voyage will require 34 hours and 45 minutes, the eastward trip 32 hours and 5 minutes. The discrepancy is due partly to helpful winds on the return trip, partly to the fact that westward the pilot is beating the sun, eastward he is travelling in a direction opposite to that of the sun, and therefore flies faster over Mother Earth. The actual night flying zone will extend only 1,460 miles between Cleveland and Rock Springs, Wyo., with 335 miles from Cleveland to Chicago, and 240 miles...
...when he landed stiff and frost-bitten from the intense cold many experts were of the opinion that he had actually gone higher than the Frenchman. In addition to a few other records, he has the reputation of being one of the Army's most reliable test pilots, who can take up a new ship and come down and tell designers exactly what's wrong and what should be changed. This wonderful career is not an accident. Macready is a most pertinent example of mens sana in corpore sano. An amateur boxing champion, five foot six in height...
There is a feeling of distaste among many pilots against the parachute. And owners of planes and air mail superintendents have sometimes voiced the cruel sentiment that a parachute on board would make the pilot desert his plane too early, without the final effort to save it. There is not the slightest argument in favor of these points-of-view. Skillful as Macready is, the failure of his engine at dead of night would certainly have meant a termination of his valuable career if not for the huge, umbrella-like parachute. Jumping from a plane is sufficiently hazardous, and calls...