Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need Soviet Russia is for capable, trained personnel. The Maxim Gorki, largest land-plane in the world, crashed in the worst airplane disaster in history (see p. 56). Russian designed, Russian built, the plane was technically perfect, might never have fallen but for the childish desire of a stunt pilot named Blagin to do tricks in dangerous proximity to the great plane...
Lawrence B. Sperry (late inventor of the automatic gyro-pilot): "To show how it could fly the plane with his hands off the controls, he was demonstrating this to a girl friend he had with him, by a little conservative lovemaking. At that moment the stabilizer went wrong and the [flying] boat went into a vicious spin, and the two were found pretty much in each other's arms, very severely injured...
Richly illustrated with old photographs, the book contains one of a strikingly handsome youth seated at the controls of an early (1913) Wright pusher. The young man was Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, son of a wealthy Philadelphia brewer. Popular as an amateur automobile racer and pioneer sportsman pilot, Early Bird Bergdoll was to become notorious four years later as the No. 1 U. S. draft-dodger during the War. Grover Cleveland Loening says Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's reason for evading the draft was that he was refused a commission in the U. S. Air Service...
...bombing Arthur W. Nelson '38, pilot, and J. Keith Davis '38, observer, finished up in second position, while Wilbur L. Cummings, Jr. '37, was the only other Harvard man to take a place, grabbing third in the balloon bursting...
...transport picked its way between a farmhouse and a barn near Atlanta, Mo., struck a fence, crashed heavily into a road embankment, turned over. Crushed to death were Pilot Bolton. Co-Pilot Kenneth Greeson, New Mexico's millionaire-Senator Bronson Cutting, a 20-year-old girl-sister of the TWA radio dispatcher who had been directing the plane. Injured were a mother and baby, the wife of a TWA pilot, five Hollywood cinemen and the wife of one, who died next...