Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These 38 prose sketches of New York-the New York of Chuck Connors and the unsophisticated Bowery and the old-time bread-line-range odd corners of the city and exhume most curious figures from the dust of the first decade of the century. The Log of A Harbor Pilot describes the tossing existence of that strange race of minor vikings, veteran pinochlers all. The Michael J. Powers Association portrays the glad-hand life of a typical East Side boss-derby-hatted ruler over 40,000 would-be Americans. The Car-Yard and the gigantic adventure of freight-smoke...
Lawrence B. Sperry was a son of Elmer Sperry, famed inventor of many gyroscopic appliances. Scarcely 30, he had achieved a reputation almost equal to that of his father. In 1914 in France, he won a 10,000-franc prize, flying a plane so stabilized by the Sperry automatic pilot, that a mechanic walked out on the wing while the pilot left the machine entirely to its own control. The first man to loop a hydroplane, the first to instal a radio set in an airplane, he was carving a brilliant career as a designer and builder of aircraft...
...journey round the world in 80 days. His efficient hero took the fastest steamers and trains, never missed a connection. Airmen may cut this time to 30 days. The U. S., England, France, Portugal are all in friendly rivalry to achieve the first flight 'round the world. The English pilot, Sir Keith Smith, has already flown from England to Australia; the Portuguese have great confidence in Admiral Gago Continho and Captain Sacadura Cabral, who flew last year from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro. In the U. S., Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service...
...take the Shenandoah in or out of its hangar, and there is always considerable hazard in such work. But now (for the first time in American aviation) a dirigible has been made fast to a mooring mast. With Captain Frank R. McCrary and Captain Anton Heinen, the German engineer-pilot, in charge, the Shenandoah, her nose about 200 feet above the ground, glided towards the apex of a huge mooring mast which stands some 1,500 feet west of the Lakehurst hangar. As the dirigible approached the mast, it dropped a steel cable. A ground crew of three officers...
Flying in a fog, a pilot may imagine himself to be hundreds of feet above the ground only to crash disastrously to earth. In an extremely sensitive altimeter designed by Arthur W. Uhl of Long Island City, condenser plates are placed on the wing tips in an oscillating circuit. The earth is itself a gigantic conductor and its proximity affects the circuit and warns the pilot through a cockpit indicator. Successful on test, this device may save many a life in such all weather work as that of the Air Mail...