Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Field, Honolulu. Arthur C. Goebel stepped out of his plane, the Woolaroc, and waved to 30,003 assembled under the clear blue Hawaiian sky. The small figure of a woman raced up to him, exclaiming: "God bless you, where is Martin?" She was Mrs. Martin Jensen, wife of a pilot in the flight. Two hours later Martin Jensen swung his Aloha down from Hawaiian sky, jumped out, into the arms of Mrs. Martin. He had won the second prize...
...Woolaroc flew smoothly. In the night an oil brush slipped under the floor boards, and began a pounding vibration; a sound like pistons blowing. Goebel and his pilot, W. C. Davis, seized the water bottle and emergency rations and began peering below them for a soft spot in the sea. The brush vibrated itself into sight. They flew on. They saw land. They saw planes coming to meet them. An army flyer circled close and held up one finger. They knew they...
...Aloha had trouble. Three times she went into dangerous tail spins and three times pilot Jensen, stunt flyer, pulled her out. Once, flying low because only close to the sea would their compass work, they bumped a wave; and rose above it. Once the gas pump went wrong. Having no radio for bearings, three hours were wasted shooting the sun. With gas left for a half hour's flying they landed after 28 hours and 5 minutes; nearly two hours behind Goebel. Of the Miss Doran and the Golden Eagle no news. They were last sighted passing the Farallon...
After 22 hours, out of the dense fog that now covered most of Germany the Bremen coasted to earth again back in Dessau. It too had been repulsed by a wall of blackness. Said Pilot Loose: "Nobody could fly in that weather. . . ." Herr Professor Hermann Junkers, grieving but not disconsolate, rushed the preparation of a third plane...
...last week, Inventor C. Francis Jenkins of Washington, D. C., offered another scheme, whereby a pilot would need to peer no farther than the dashboard in his cockpit to stay on his course. Inventor Jenkins proposed to equip land lighthouses such as those now winking over the Alleghenies with automatic radio transmitters, each unit costing only $250 and manageable by the present lighthouse attendants. Each station would broadcast on a short wavelength measured to light up a wireless light bulb in the cockpit of a passing plane. Darkness, fog, rain, sleet or snow have virtually no effect on radio waves...