Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mail started its night flying service July 1, 1924. In spite of pessimistic predictions, its pilots managed to fly 1,200,000 miles without the loss of a life. A fatal parachute jump has now broken the record of safety. Clarence O. Gilbert, a onetime flying Army sergeant, was in the Air Mail pilot's reserve and was pressed into service during the holiday rush. He flew away from May wood Field, Chicago, at 7:10 one evening and, sailing westward, encountered a blinding snowstorm near Kaneville, Ill. His motor failed. A pilot under such conditions is helpless...
Early prejudice against parachutes has entirely disappeared, since they are now as nearly fool-proof as possible. The members of the Caterpillar Club (men who have escaped a catastrophe by means of the chute) now number hundreds. Every Army and Navy pilot and many flying civilians are instructed in its use. The great Lieut. John R. Macready himself owed his life to this device. When his motor failed over the city of Dayton, his ghostly warning cry of "Hullo, there below!" frightened the men seeking his remains in his wrecked airplane...
Likewise Blake has seen three years of work under Coach Knox. In his Freshman year Blake played regular quarterback and since then has been pilot for the second team. His work has included the learning of the formations and plays of the various colleges Harvard has played in order to put them on against the Crimson elevens for practice...
...Crimson observer, particularly in the first quarter when the Elis had been forced to their five yard line, in such a position that when they lined up the offensive fullback was directly behind the goal posts. A kick would have been a gamble at best, so the Blue pilot signalled for an off tackle play. With astounding perfection the Yale forwards opened a wide gap, and Pond huntled through for 20 yards...
Stafford alone approached doing what the coaches expected of him. Time and again it was this 145-pound pilot who dropped the Tiger after he had broken through the forward line. His judgment on punts was usually good, except for one occasion when the ball took an awkward bounce and failed to roll over the goal line as he had expected. On running back punts he was ineffective because he received practically no support in the way of interference...