Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., and his brokerage offices in Manhattan, Richard F. Hoyt commutes at 100 miles an hour. He uses a Loening amphibian biplane, sits lazily in a cabin finished in dark brown broadcloth and saddle leather, with built-in lockers containing pigskin picnic cases. Pilot Robert E. Ellis occupies a forward cockpit, exposed to the breezes. But occasionally Broker Hoyt wishes to pilot himself. When this happens he pulls a folding seat out of the cabin ceiling, reveals a sliding hatch. Broker Hoyt mounts to the seat, opens the hatch, inserts a removable joystick...
...last act exhibits further highlights in the sky pilot's hypocritical career. He is the Rev. Dr. Elmer Gantry now, but no less eager to share a bed of shame. At the end, there is no lessening of his success nor any change of tactics. He is seen spewing, before an unseen congregation, a prayer that "we may make this a moral nation...
...Another Pole, less fortunate, was Lieutenant Kasimir Szalas, Polish army aviator, who flew from Warsaw to sunny, iridescent Bagdad, only to be killed when his Fokker crashed at the southern airdrome. Included in the casualties tragically terminating this 2,438-mile flight were co-pilot Lieutenant Kalina and Mechanic Klosinek, who were both injured. The trio had planned to return on the following...
...plane on to the Grand Canal, and turned amorous attention to his passenger. $37,500 was the fare she had paid him to transport her, Catherine, decadent American college girl, from the Eiffel Tower to Java, and Philip, her (chief) lover. Meanwhile Eric served very nicely as more than pilot. It became necessary to draw the curtains of the airship, but the Italian populace continued to applaud hilariously, their gondolas created a serious traffic jam, and "the horses on St. Mark's, not content with winking, were stamping and frisking their tails; the winged lion was heard to laugh...
...Travel-Air biplane he climbed. Ten minutes later the engine died, the plane sideslipped, crashed into the beet-field of one Max Winkler near Trumbull Field, New London, Conn. Both Stone-legs were broken; he may not dance again. In a few weeks he would have received a pilot's license...