Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last things Test Pilot James H. ("Jimmy") Collins did before his final, fatal power dive was to list the crack U.S. test pilots. High on his list was Lee Gehlbach of Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., whom Collins rated "one of the ablest in the field" (TIME, April 1). Few weeks ago able Pilot Gehlbach announced he would take Jimmy Collins' risky place testing a new Navy fighter for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. at Farmingdale...
...What Pilot Collins thought of his profession was no secret. "It's a damn fool's job," he liked to say, "but it's easy money...
...such talk Pilot Gehlbach's answer is blunt and brief: "I'll fly anything, anytime, anywhere, for money, marbles or chalk...
...Wiley Post Aircraft Co. of Oklahoma, have experimented with the Ford 4-cyl. engine for airplane use. Others have tried motorcycle engines. Month ago a midget plane called Drone, powered with a 16-h. p. motorcycle engine, caused a mild sensation in London (TIME, May 6). Last week Austrian Pilot Robert Kronfeld flew from London to Paris, at a fuel cost of $1.47, in a glider with a 5-h. p. motorcycle engine...
...Australian hero is Air Commodore Sir Charley Edward Kingsford-Smith. Co-pilot and navigator on most of his flights is a thickset, baldish onetime mail pilot named Capt. P. G. ("Bill") Taylor. Because of Capt. Taylor's uncanny ability to find dotlike islands in midocean, Sir Charles's comment after most flights consists of: "Bill's course, as usual, perfect...