Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Service, and in that position has many times taken occasion to use aeroplanes on his tours of inspection. Some time ago, in order better to familiarize himself with his duties, he began the regular flying course, and about three months ago formed the resolve of actually qualifying as a pilot. The fact that he was somewhat over the usual flying age did not deter him. He mastered the technical mechanics of the aeroplane and took his tests in cross-country flying, taking off, landing. A few days ago in a de Haviland plane he took and successfully passed the final...
Mummert's tiny monoplane proved as unlucky as Barbot's. On a trial flight near Roosevelt Field, L. I., a squall flung the plane against a telegraph pole, smashing the landing gear and wings and badly injuring the pilot, Captain Brooke L. Pearson...
...flivver" class for airplanes, Harvey C. Mummert, an engineer of the Curtiss Aeroplane Co. a Garden City, L. I., has built an even smaller machine which has proved entirely successful. The Mummert monoplane is equipped with an ordinary two cylinder motorcycle engine, weighs only 500 pounds with fuel and pilot and has a wing spread of only 20 feet. With its gas tank filled with 19 gallons of fuel, it can cruise for 1,200 miles. The maximum speed is 80 miles per hour. Captain Brooke L. Pierson, an Air Mai pilot, has put the plane through a number...
Lieutenant Casale, one of France's most famous aces, decorated with the Military Medal, the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre, fought unharmed through the great war from May, 1915, when he obtained his pilot's certificate. Piloting a commercial airplane on a prosaic civilian task, his plane got out of control and fell into a wood near the village Dameraucourt near Beauvais. Casale was crushed and killed. His mechanician escaped without injury...
...dwarfs every airplane built up to this day. To keep the dimensions within reasonable limits, three wings are used to give the enormous carrying capacity required. The plane represents an investment of half-a-million dollars, and since the first flight of a machine is always an experiment, the pilot has considerable responsibility-one false maneuver may spell a tremendous disaster. The plane has a great military interest apart from its gigantic size, as it will carry a bomb 4 tons in weight, the biggest ever raised in the air. According to the designer such a bomb dropped...