Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jenkins' invention did not, however, enable a plane to depress its wings, bird fashion. It was an adaptation of the reversible propeller blade already used on water ships but hitherto considered too dangerous for planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead...
...bounced them all the way from Grand Rapids, 13 commercial airplanes of 14 that had started three weeks before, snored down across the finish line of the third National Reliability Tour into Ford Airport, Detroit. First to cross the line was a Pitcairn Mailwing. Four seconds later came Pilot Eddie Stinson of Detroit, with seven passengers in a cabined monoplane of his own design. Of the merit points awarded for keeping to schedule, not having accidents, fuel economy, etc.-he had 2,000 more than any other contestant. The ships had traveled 4,200 miles, from Detroit to New England...
Clarence D. Chamberlin, Mr. Levine's onetime employe, was no longer obliged by contract to pilot Mr. Levine and declined the latter's invitation to fly the Columbia home. Mr. Levine approached Lieut. Bernt Balchen, Byrd aide, and Sir Alan Cobham of England, but without success. Then it occurred to Mr. Levine that his homeward pilot might well be a Frenchman. He approached Pilot Pelletier D'Oisy, Paris-to-Tokyo aeronaut. He talked with one-legged Pilot Tarascon, who was to have flown the Atlantic last year with the late Pilot Coli. Finally, after long night sessions, he decided...
Frenchmen were ill-pleased with this explanation and stormed in the newspapers that Pilot Drouhin should have carried out his plans with his countrymen. The Farman Motor & Airplane Co. published a bitter letter about its pilot having been "purchased" and sped its preparations to beat Mr. Levine anyway. The Aero Club of France said it would enter the race too, to insure a French victory...
...best of standing. Mr. Forrest, like many another correspondent, had hurried last fortnight from Paris to Ver-sur-Mer on the Channel coast as soon as news was flashed that Flyer Byrd and comrades had come down there. Mr. Forrest was alert and daring enough to get a commercial pilot to whisk him off to the coast through the stormy night so that he arrived before any of his competitor-colleagues. Of this feat, said the Herald Tribune's unconventional editorial last week: "Just what a foreign correspondent ought to be is Mr. Wilbur Forrest . . . Wherever trouble is brewing...