Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers were court-martialed on charges of negligence when, on April 30, the Colorado went aground on Diamond Reef in New York Harbor (TIME, May 9, June 13, 20). Although the ship was piloted by a civilian Navy Yard pilot, one Clark Cottrell, Captain Karns and Lieutenant Commander Friedell were on the bridge when the vessel struck, and were therefore considered to be responsible for the accident...
Such excursions will not only be "nice" but also possible within four months, if one has faith in Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, designer of the monoplane, Columbia, which carried Pilot Chamberlin and Passenger Levine across the Atlantic (TIME, June...
...contracted to build five triple-motored planes for passenger service between New York and Chicago. The trip will be made in seven and a half hours. The fare (one way) will be in the neighborhood of $60-50% greater than railroad fare. Each plane will carry twelve passengers, a pilot-navigator and a steward who will serve meals, operate the radio and be emergency pilot. The cost of each plane, equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, will be $28,500. The company will be financed by A. R. Martine of the Bankers' Service Co., Manhattan...
...Mayo, chief of the aircraft division of the Ford Motor Co.; Harry Knight, Harold M. Bixby and William B. Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones, skillful pilot; Chester W. Cuthell, onetime U. S. Shipping Board counsel. It seemed likely that this group would form a huge corporation, would put ships in the skies to compete with the Bellanca planes over the New York-Chicago route, would eventually link every U. S. metropolis...
...Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine were last week enjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known as Baden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelin plants. Some of their doings: ¶Fraulein Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed woman pilot, was taken for a ride over Berlin by Pilot Chamberlin. Skillful, she also took Passenger Levine for a ride. Correspondents heralded the trips as strengthening to U. S.-German relations...