Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centrifugal force. On the last leg he forgot he had finished and went around once again. When he got out of his cockpit, his legs had gone to sleep. But he forgot sleep, fatigue, grease, wind and dirt, when his chief Admiral Moffett slammed his own hat on the pilot's head and asked some one to "give the boy a drink...
Small wonder attention is being given to the commercial possibilities of such craft. Commander Frank McCrary, skipper of the ZR1, sees " a revolution in transportation technique." Captain Anton Heinen, German test pilot and consultant in the construction of the ZR1, predicts the elimination of disasters due to poor piloting and improper construction-the Captain has carried 100,000 passengers in the air without a scratch-and the ousting of ocean liners by dirigibles. Certainly an air journey of five days from San Francisco to New Zealand instead of 22 by sea is tempting...
Coburn was on the field in uniform for the first time since his injury. One of the University's most dependable ground gainers, he played at half on team B. Hammond was at the other half; Akers was pilot; and Robb, fullback. Kerman, who was kept out of the Rhode Island game with an injured wrist played center on team B. Cooper and Macomber were on his flanks, while R. Hubbard and Hobson were tackles. Evans and Combs were on the ends...
...from their headquarters at Rockwell Field, San Diego, mounted from 16,000 to 20,000 feet, above the clouds and fog, flew out over the ocean, snapped the eclipse at 80-mile intervals previously mapped out between Santa Barbara and San Lower California. Each plane was manned by a pilot and a photographer. Lieut. John Macready, transcontinental non-stop flyer, and George Stephens, the Army's crack photographer, ran into a heavy rainstorm and secured nothing. But aviators from the battle fleet squadrons, under command of Captain V. Marshall, secured satisfactory photographs of the eclipse, including the sun's corona...
...officer, often termed the father of Naval aviation. Captain Mustin was largely responsible for the establishment of the Bureau of Aeronautics and the shaping of the Navy's air policy in recent years. Inventor of the catapult idea of launching airplanes from shipboard, he was also the first pilot to be launched in this manner. As first Commander of the Aircraft Squadrons of the Fleet, he perfected means of spotting gunfire by airplane. Together with Admiral Bradley Fiske, he perfected the telescopic gunsight now used throughout the world...