Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus simply, at the moment of least alarm, tragedy overtook U. S. Army flyers sent to loop a sister continent. Major Herbert A. Dargue and his relief pilot, Lieut. Innis C. Whitehead leaped free and their parachutes saved them. Captain Clinton F. Woolsey fell free too late. Lieut. John W. Benton burned, his cremation starting in midair. South America's good will, which the Army flight had been planned to stimulate, turned to pity, horror...
...pound first year eights. Because of the death of coxswains all first year men interested have been asked to report at Weld Boat House today at 2.30 o'clock, where they will be assigned to the Leviathan. Experience is not necessary and probation will not keep men from the pilot berths on the dormitory crews, Manager J. McA. Preston '28 announced...
Slowly the tug drew ahead of the air liner, for a great wind was blowing from England at almost 90 miles per hour. The plane was speeding like an arrow through the wind and yet was standing still while the tugboat crept forward. At a touch of the pilot's controls the air liner soared up to quiet air, sped on toward London, left the tug behind...
...Mail Pilot Short's beat is between Chicago, where he lives, and Cleveland. Aged 32, stocky, black-mustached, cheerful, Pilot Short started flying during the War, has never stopped...
...heavily salted with realism and cynicism. They will admire Clayton Knight's sketches of havoc-ridden skies. They will remember the writer as they remember other men in his pages-big "Ros" Fuller, Clarence Fry, John Goad, "Hobey" Baker, "Micky" Mannock, superb Major Bishop (and his wife) and Pilot Springs, who flew with milk of magnesia in one pocket, gin in the other...