Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ansgar, Iowa last week were gathered 2,000 people to see the town's first Fourth of July celebration in 20 years. They saw a plane lose a piece of wing fabric, spin dizzily into the town's main street, burst spectacularly into flames. Incinerated were the pilot and four joyriders, one a woman...
...great flying fish, sleek in the sun, Albatross II soared out over the valley, circled back over the ridge, climbed higher & higher on a thermal current. By staying in the air five hours young du Pont would get his "D" license, held by only one other U. S. pilot, John K. (''Jack") O'Meara...
Last to leave the ship were Captain Moeller and the wireless operator. Early next morning the Dresden, mortally wounded by jagged Norwegian rocks, rolled over and sank, leaving only a few feet of metal above the surface. Pilot Jacobsen heaped ashes on his own head...
...Stavanger, Norway the Dresden picked up two pilots and started nosing through a light mist along the shore. They nosed a little too close. Twice in the course of the day the Dresden ran aground but was floated off under her own power. Toward evening the tired, windburned but still hungry junketers trooped down into the dining room. On the shore of Karmö Island Pilot Jacobsen's family stood expectantly in line waiting for papa to bring the Dresden past. That he did, so close that his children could see him waving to them from the bridge beside...
...ended in a virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited to take out the League Commission. They struck their white flag and up amid huzzas went the bright gold, blue and red of Colombia. "Contact!" cried the pilot and the tri-motor roared. Said Guillermo Giraldez, Spanish President of the League Commission, as he took off: "An historic occasion! A festival of Peace...