Word: piloted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Navy Department) was aboard the Shenandoah on the occasion of its accidental flight. Short, slenderly built, Heinan has a keen and piercing blue eye, an air of imperturbability. Bred in the great German port of Hamburg, he was a seaman before becoming Germany's most noted dirigible pilot. He flew the Bodensee between Berlin and Friedrichshafen in south Germany on passenger-carrying service with almost clocklike regularity, claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years' piloting. In spite of his imperfect English, he was able a fortnight ago, tugging the while...
Heinan's Reply. Heinan made a strong rejoinder to Editor Howe. The Shenandoah will be in commission in April. If Great Britain or any other Power threatens to forestall the U. S. in a voyage of discovery to the Polar areas this Summer, the German pilot is prepared to make an immediate dash to the Pole, not by way of Alaska- where mooring masts and other equipment have to be carefully prepared- but in a five-day non-stop flight of 6,000 miles from Lakehurst straight to the Pole and back. And this at 24 hours' notice...
...Lepere plane nor any lack of the pilot's endurance that pre-vented victory, but the breaking of the supercharger, whose function is to maintain the power of the motor in rarefied air. The undismayed Macready will try again, with another supercharged plane which theoretically can reach 45,000 feet, or nearly nine miles of altitude...
...Date Pilot Feet...
...home in the mountains of northern Italy, Gabriele d'Annunzio, intrepid poet-pilot, was reported seriously ill from gastritis...