Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having Senator William Gibbs McAdoo are dancing, flying. In Washington the National Aeronautic Association, of which he is president, held a dance to award its annual "certificates of reward & performance." Senator McAdoo handed scrolls to twelve doughty aviators and Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, first licensed woman balloon pilot, who ascended 57,559 ft. into the stratosphere with her husband, Dr. Jean Piccard...
Last week Pilot Joe Kirton, his resignation in, got ready to make his last flight for Hillman Saloon Coaches & Airways Co. (London-Paris). Presently two girls who had been pacing back & forth at Stapleford Airdrome boarded his plane. They sucked nervously at cigarets. Said one: "Darling, wouldn't John have loved to be with us?" The two passengers had tickets for all six seats in the plane, explained that four friends were expected. The friends never arrived. After the take-off the girls complained of a draught, asked Pilot Kirton to close the door between cockpit and cabin...
Upminister workmen saw the Sisters du Bois leap from Pilot Kirton's plane. Hands clasped together, they fell 4,000 ft., landed in a cabbage patch. Jane's wristwatch, its crystal unbroken, still ticked near her corpse...
...United Air Lines' swift Boeings, and to able Pilot Turner, all credit...
...Warner) is an investigation of perhaps the only branch of the U. S. flying service that has hitherto escaped the attention of the cinema- aviators of the U. S. Marine Corps. A hard-boiled lieutenant (Pat O'Brien) gruffly supervises the training of a cocky stunt pilot (James Cagney). By the time the stunt pilot's initiation is over, he has acquired a thorough knowledge of formation flying, traces of esprit de corps, the undivided attention of his superior officer's intended fiancee (Margaret Lindsay...