Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wreckage of a French plane in the Great Congo Forest, had been mauled by leopards, lions, jackals and wolves, had been punctured by the proboscises of poisonous flies and mosquitoes, had been stripped of valuables by Banda Negroes and finally had been found by a Belgian search pilot, shipped down the Congo River to French Equatorial Africa's capital, Brazzaville, thence by rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa's new Governor General Edouard Renard. Last year he indignantly resigned a snug Parisian...
After tea and compliments Young Chang ordered his U. S. pilot to fly him to Yunnanfu. Half an hour later he was soaring over Chinese Communist troops, too high and too swift to be pinged by their poor marksmanship. Suddenly the Boeing began to sputter and Chang's heart was in his mouth. If his plane were forced down and they caught him, the Young Marshal could count on being tortured carefully to death. As his U. S. pilot put his ship prayerfully into a long glide, bullets came pinging close, but on she skimmed. Abruptly she resumed...
Inside the huge cabin the six stalwart young men in blue uniforms and white caps were too busy to do anything but their jobs. With the ship guided by a robot pilot and directional radio beam, Captain Edwin C. Musick and Chief Pilot Sullivan checked the course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made...
...Mexico City an hour later she was given a wild Latin reception by Government officials, some 20,000 shouting Mexicans and her ubiquitous husband George Palmer Putnam. More impressed by her reception than by her performance, Mrs. Putnam told newsmen: "From a pilot's standpoint the record was not very satisfactory...
...husband in bed from heart strain (TIME, April 15), Mrs. Anthony Eden, wife of Britain's Lord Privy Seal, flew up from Leeds with a party of local bigwigs to open an airline to Heston. Flustered by such a great and pretty passenger, the plane's pilot landed too fast at Heston Airdrome, skidded on through a fence, deposited the ceremonial party in a pasture...