Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the world's most hazardous peacetime occupation is that of test pilot for a company making military aircraft. Lately when famed Builder John K. ("Jack") Northrop of Los Angeles (Lockheed Vega, Northrop Delta) wanted a pilot to test his newest attack plane he found his man in Vance Breese, oldtime mail pilot, barnstormer, test pilot and aviation theorist. To Pilot Breese Builder Northrop offered $8,000 for a 16,000-ft. vertical power-dive. Pilot Breese thought 50 per foot a fair price...
Because of the terrific physical strain involved, Pilot Breese had himself taped from head to foot before going up. At 20,000 ft. he leveled off, nosed his ship straight down at full throttle. He was making 425 m.p.h. when his air-speed indicator broke. He kept on diving, pulled his plane out successfully...
...Winnie Mae into the stratosphere last week he thought he climbed 48,000 ft. The second time, he thought he reached 55,000 ft. but had no way of telling because his altimeter froze at 35,000 ft. Not until the barographs used on the flights are checked will Pilot Post know whether he beat the world's airplane altitude record of 47,352 ft. held by Italy's Renato Donati. Because of the thin air and -70° temperature of the stratozone, Pilot Post had encased himself in a grotesque suit made of white asbestos. Topping...
...over Florida's Biscayne Bay one day last week flew an airplane towing two gliders. In one was Sportsman Pilot Harold Bowen, in the other Warren Edwin Eaton, president of the Soaring Society of America, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), co-holder of the U. S. altitude record for sailplanes (TIME, Oct. 8). Newscameramen in an accompanying plane watched Eaton's glider cut loose, prepared to photograph it gliding earthward. Suddenly the glider dipped sharply, flipped over on its back. Instruments tumbled out of it, then Pilot Eaton. The photographers waited for his parachute...
Haley, who follows Herman Gundlach, Jr. '35 as the leader of the football men, has been an outstanding performer ever since he was given his first trial as the Varsity pilot late in the 1933 season. At that time he took over the quarter-back post from Danny Wells and at once came into the limelight as a good field general and an expert with quick kicks and deceptive running plays...