Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Express Crash. Pilot E. G. Cline crashed into a tree 25 miles north of Hartford, Conn. He was killed, his plane ruined. He was making the first flight of an air express service between Boston and New York...
...flying around and if they see a stork delivering a little baby to tell it of your desires." Thirteen. Twelve Jugoslav military planes flew from Belgrade toward Prague. Thirteen started. The unlucky one fell on a glacier in the Vorarberg sector of the Rhaetian Alps. Alpine guides found the pilot with his legs broken but alive. The observer, Colonel Petrovich, froze to death searching help...
...through the long day they plodded painfully through the water. Favorite after favorite burned up and was pulled into his pilot boat. Michael Hamburg labored miles, indomitably behind the tinkling bell of his pilot boat. He, stone blind, finally gave up. One man was seized with mumps. Edward Keating, winner of the Lake George marathon, was dragged out, cramped. Lee J. Smith, legless swimmer, lost his chance for the prize by rescuing a drowning opponent. Byron Summers, the California "flying fish," swam to the tune of a band in his boat, swam many miles, caught cramps when in second place...
Flying the Stinson Detroiter monoplane, Pride of Detroit, which won the Ford Reliability Tour this year, businessman Edward F. Schlee (oil) and onetime airmail pilot William S. Brock set out to circle the globe in record time...
...middle-aged woman, smiling, stepped out of a plane at Le Bourget Field, Paris. She had driven the plane from Lyons, France, that morning, accompanied by a pilot. She was the Duchess of Bedford (England), "just touring Europe...