Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrounding cliffs, 35,000 spectators had watched all night while a ground crew of 120 U. S. cavalrymen, working under cinema floodlights, swung into place the airtight gondola with its ton of scientific apparatus and 4,200 Ib. of buckshot ballast. In climbed the crew: Major William E. Kepner (pilot & commander), onetime assistant navigator of the Los Angeles, winner of the 1928 Gordon Bennett international balloon race; Capt. Albert W. Stevens (scientific observer), famed aerial photographer; and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, longtime lighter-than-airman...
...Bloomsburg, Pa. Airport, Gifford Pinchot Jr., son of the Governor of Pennsylvania, qualified for his amateur pilot's license...
Despite the King's allusion to "struggling against mud," Queensway has in fact been cut in sandstone so firm that the "sand hogs" never had to work under air pressure. In 1925 the chipping was started by Princess Mary with a pneumatic drill. Two pilot tunnels, each 12 ft. in diameter, were cut out from Liverpool and Birkenhead until in 1928 only a thin curtain of stone hung between them in mid stream. Out to chip this down and shake hands under the Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug...
...Construction of a 500-m.p.h. wind tunnel (see below) ¶ Increase of flying hours from 200 to 300 per Army pilot per year. ¶ Additional provision for training in night, instrument, radio beam and bad weather flying. ¶ A minimum of 2,320 airplanes for Army peacetime requirements. Present number: 1.500.* ¶ Development of a 1,000-h.p. liquid-cooled Diesel engine. ¶ Immediate organization of an independent "General Headquarters Air Force." composed of all tactical combat units of the Air Corps under a separate commander. ¶ An annual aircraft procurement program for Army & Navy with purchases by three methods...
...fitted with "anti-piracy grilles" that screen off the deck-passengers from the rest of the vessel, prevent surprise attacks. Until last year, piracy was unknown along China's northern coast. Then one March morning pirate junks attacked the British-owned coasting steamer Nanchang, waiting for a pilot off the mouth of the Liao River. Contrary to all rules, four British officers were captured, three of them held for ransom for five and a half dreary months. To while away the time and keep track of the days, one of them kept a diary. Enthusiastically introduced by Peter Fleming...