Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equally hysterical, a Russian news photographer in a third plane that was flying nearby nearly throttled the pilot of his plane before being knocked, half conscious, back into his seat...
...stunting of Pilot Blagin was the result of a criminal lack of discipline which the Government and the Communist Party are removing from the air fleet with hot irons. . . . Regulations that hooligans of the air must not fly within a mile of military airplanes in flight should be applied to civilian aviation as well...
...high, carrying a crew of eleven, 36 passengers. Of the latter, nearly all were aviation shockworkers and their families, getting a "joyride" in reward for faithful service. On the ground, at Moscow Central Airdrome, 32 other shockworkers were waiting their turn to go up. Looking up, they saw the pilot of the tiny training plane stunting, in violation of orders. They saw him come out of a loop, crash head on into Maxim Gorki. With the little plane wedged in its wing between two motors, Maxim Gorki began falling. The pilots cut the switches, regained control, began gliding towards...
...children amid falling fragments. Part of the fuselage landed on a worker's house in Moscow's outskirts, wrecked it from roof to cellar. Wings, motors, equipment, bodies and parts of bodies fell far & wide. Of the 48 on board, all were killed. Also killed was the pilot of the little training plane...
...prize offered by Manhattan Hotelman Raymond Orteig, a young (25) onetime mail pilot left Roosevelt Field in a Ryan monoplane at 7:52 a. m., May 20, 1927 to fly nonstop to Paris. He carried 425 gal. of fuel, four sandwiches, two canteens of water, army emergency rations. Sitting on a gasoline tank, seeing through a periscope, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Le Bourget Field in 33½ hr., landed to receive such acclaim as had been given no private citizen before or since...