Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...membership in the Graduate Committee of the Flying Club are R. P. Baldwin '16, president of the Boston Airport Corporation; L. S. Marks, Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering School; J. H. Rand '08, president of the Remington-Rand Company; Arthur Woods '92, New York architect, and former pilot; and John Lavalle Jr. '18, former pilot...
...Japan, four aviators were in training for the long and arduous flight to the U. S. across the Pacific. "I consider myself already a dead man," was their oft-repeated toast. Last week one of the four, Yukichi Goto, went up as observer for another pilot. Their plane crashed and he was burned to death. Dauntless, his three comrades trained...
...wanted to set a new world's record for a parachute jump. Last week she climbed onto the wing of a plane, 15,000 feet in the air, and let go. Her parachute caught on the plane and she faced certain death until Dr. R. L. Ellis, her pilot, brought the ship safely to earth on one wheel and a wing tip, leaving her safe, grateful...
...Bird had been refused a pilot's license by the San Diego Air Control Board. His home-made monoplane had also been pronounced unfit to fly. Yet last week he took it into the air with four passengers, nose-dived 300 feet to earth while trying to avoid a midair crash with a big Maddux plane. Mr. Bird and his four passengers were killed instantly. The home-made monoplane was a twisted wreck in a field near Oldtown, Calif...
...Columbia, setting a world's record for long-distance non-stop flight which still stands. Tersely, without dramatics, in his new book Record Flights*, he tells of bitter quarrels with Charles A. Levine, his passenger on the flight to Germany, owner of the ship, who wanted a pilot who would film well when came the time to take the movies...