Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Morro Castle's SOS flashed into Manhattan, weather along the coast was vile. The average commercial airplane pilot would have hesitated long before flying a cameraman offshore in the dark, wind, and rain. But International and Acme had classified lists of pilots, including certain ones who had the equipment and the courage to fly through anything. At about 7 a. m. two such pilots took off from New York with International and Acme cameramen, returned three hours later within five minutes of each other, with magnificent pictures of the burning vessel. Somehow AP was left...
...begins in earnest when the first ship with newsworthy passengers aboard picks up its pilot and starts up Ambrose Channel toward Staten Island. Then the Customs cutter shoves off from the Barge Office to meet her at Quarantine. Along go the privileged newshawks. Before the ship docks they will have an hour and a half to stalk their prey...
Next day the indefatigable rainmaker went up again, accompanied by Pilot Lou Foote, a newsreel photographer, a Dallas night-club entertainer. A bomb dropped from 15,000 ft. exploded prematurely, set off three other bombs inside the plane. With one side of the cabin blown out and flames eating their way through the cockpit, able Pilot Foote sideslipped coolly into a cotton field, saved himself and passengers. But next day pneumonia, brought on by burns, took James A. Boze...
...White Horse Tavern Productions, Inc. has nothing to do with Sportsman Pilot Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's White Horse Tavern, husband of onetime Actress Bonnie Glass...
...with Edgar Mackey's Maple Leaf IV, defended it successfully the next year. With the War, ''Tom" Sopwith began to make a fortune in England manufacturing his Camels, Pups and Dolphins. After the War he dissolved his airplane company and formed a new company named for his longtime test pilot, Harry Hawker, who first tried and failed to fly the Atlantic in 1919. Today Hawker Aircraft, Ltd. makes half the planes used by the British Royal Air Force...