Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tossing the Fox film overboard in a sealed can, Captain George Fried of the George Washington, famed for his sea rescues, trailed it behind his ship. Circling around the ship Pilot Marion Grevenberg let down a grappling hook, grappled again & again until his rope broke...
First fatality of the race brought Death to two Britons, Flying Officer Harold D. Gilman and Amateur Pilot James Baines. Bad luck had plagued them from the start. Taking off from Rome, 10,000 miles behind the race leaders, they crashed near Palazzo San Gervasio, were burned beyond recognition...
...British racing plane had won the world's greatest air race. What pleased them greatly was that in second place was a U. S. transport plane powered by U. S. engines; that not far behind, roaring over Australia, was another U. S. transport plane flown by U. S. Pilot Roscoe Turner. Mrs. Aquilla Derryberry Turner of Corinth, Miss, did not raise her boy Roscoe to be a flyer...
...excellent clerk. In 1917 he enlisted as a private in the U. S. ambulance service, rose to sergeant, transferred to the air service as a balloon observer, came out a first lieutenant. After the War Roscoe Turner became a lion-tamer in a circus, later a barnstorming j stunt pilot, wing-walker and parachute-jumper. He toured the country advertising Curlee Clothing Co. of St. Louis and, in 1924, married a dark-haired, pretty Corinth girl named Carline Stovall...
When Turner began to appear in this gaudy get-up before he had made any real name for himself as a speed flyer, Cy Caldwell wrote prophetically in Aero Digest: "A pilot with nerve enough to wear that uniform and kick a half-grown lion in the pants is bound to come in first eventually." And last year Roscoe Turner began "coming in first" until today he is the outstanding speed pilot of the U. S. His rivals sneer at his clothes, at his brash statements that he is "a bit of a hero to the boys of the country...