Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hither and thither to great public functions. But Mayor Boess-though, of course, he has a motor, a motor boat, and ample public money for his railway fare, when he wished to go, say, to the Leipzig fair- has lately felt almost medieval without a smart monoplane and liveried pilot...
...York were too busy with War chatter to notice three planes circling over the harbor. The leading machine was making a beautiful spiral. Suddenly it sideslipped, pitched into the water, crumpled. A yacht steamed over to the wreckage and a young naval lieutenant almost drowned in releasing the pilot from the tangled wires. The pilot was Trubee Davison. His back was broken, he was crippled for life, he would never fly over the French battlefields. The year before, a mere sophomore at Yale, Trubee Davison had seen the stark necessity for trained U. S. aviators, had, by incomparable enthusiasm, created...
...airplane coming along low over the fields from the windy northwest. It was swerving and teetering as if its courage were buffeted away. Two small pieces fell from it. It twirled reluctantly, then dropped like a shot bird. Farmer Letendre extricated from the wreck the remains of Pilot Elmer Lee Partridge. Partridge had just left Minneapolis on the inaugural southbound trip of an air mail service between there and Chicago.* Three of the five other pilots flying the new route that day were blown astray. Partridge is believed to have had no parachute. Colonel Charles M. Dickinson, president...
...minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident of a 24-hour glide with...
...world's record for a glide by pilot alone: 9 hr. 4 min. by Lieutenant Thoret (TIME, Sept...