Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the Richards Flying Field, near Kansas City, a puppydog appeared, seeking friends. Some pilots did not reject his overtures, but one, taking a dislike to his shy looks and gentle manners, took him away in an automobile, deserted him on a lonely highroad. The puppy made his way back. Finding that the beast survived even his own natural inclination to sniff at whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed...
...same issue, you speak of "Pilot Ben Bielson" in connection with the Wilkins Polar expedition. Ben is a native of the little Red River Valley town of Hatton, N. Dak. During the War he served in the air forces of the A. E. F. Coming home, he was graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1921, and has since been in the flying business in Alaska. He is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity...
Wilkins. After 13 ominous days without word from Captain Wilkins and Pilot Ben Eielson, the supporting party of the Detroit Arctic Expedition, at Fairbanks, finally picked up faint radio signals. It was Operator Waskey of the expedition's overland sledging party, calling from Point Barrow, which he had just reached by forced marches. Wilkins and Eielson were?the signals were very faint?were there, safe, in a fur-trader's comfortable cabin. They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains. Heavy-laden, the monoplane Alaskan...
Three Freshman teams chose their leaders for the spring yesterday afternoon. Richard Henry O'Connell, of Cambridge, was picked to captain the first year track men, Morton Cole of Hingham to lead the 150-pound crew, and Lawrence Milton Shapiro of Brooklyn, N. Y., to pilot the first year lacrosse...
...Detroiter. He took the air in search of the missing plane but was soon forced back by motor trouble. His last orders from Captain Wilkins had been to pick up and move their base from Fairbanks to Barrow as soon as possible and to come searching for him and Pilot Ben Eielson if their radio stayed unheard...