Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieut. Hoppin, known as a careful pilot,* met a nasty-looking rain squall between Binghamton and Cortland, N. Y. He thought it best to land and selected a field on a stock farm. The field was knobbly. The ship bounced and turned a somersault. Mr. Sweet, having unbuckled his safety-belt, was pitched against the cockpit wall. A head blow killed him. Lieut. Hoppin, belted in his seat, was unbruised...
Died. Floyd Bennett, 37, pilot of the first airplane to fly to the North Pole and back; of pneumonia; at Quebec...
...those letters were lacking in dignity. TIME also showed itself lacking in dignity to print them. You have no business to use your magazine as a medium for making personal suggestions to the President of the United States. I have no doubt that Colonel Lindbergh would be a safe pilot for any man, great or small; but that is no reason why President Coolidge should have his life made more difficult with continual nagging...
...short test flight was hastily arranged and an Irishman climbed into the seat beside Pilot Koehl and the controls. Commandant James Fitzmaurice it was, and, as befitted an adventurous Irish lad of 30 with a flair for the romantic and a record for the daring, he was head of the Air Force of the Irish Free State. He too wanted to fly across the Atlantic; had, indeed, made a start last September with Capt. Robert H. Mclntosh in the Fokker monoplane Princess Xenia, only to turn back after three hours' weary bicker with the winds...
From Quebec "Duke" Schiller, Canadian pilot, and Dr. Louis Cuisinier, French ace, left in a Canadian Transcontinental Airways Co. plane for Greenly Island. They returned with Major Fitzmaurice, whom the Irish Free State Government had just promoted from Commandant. The Germans remained behind...