Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five years ago the U. S. Army Air Corps consisted of one plane and one pilot. He was a keen-eyed, pipe-smoking bantam named Lieut. Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois. Up from the ranks of infantry, he joined the Signal Corps in 1908, learned to fly balloons, went to Fort Myer, Va. where Orville Wright was trying to sell the Army its first airplane. He laid out the test course-the amazing distance of ten miles-and was chosen official passenger by Orville Wright for two reasons. First, he weighed only 126 Ib. Second, as Orville Wright...
...Propaganda for the revolutionary government of the South ; as a member of the Committee of Twelve he helped direct the Canton insurrection, saw plenty of hand-to-hand fighting. His story of" the Shanghai rising is a compressed and fictionalized account of what actually happened. Last March, with Pilot Molinier. Malraux made international headlines when he flew across the Great Arabian Desert and re ported the discovery of what he thought was the legendary city of Sheba. with 20 towers still standing (TIME. March 19). At present Author Malraux lives in Paris, working for the publishing house of Gallimard...
Into the control cabin of Condor NC 12354 at Newark Airport one afternoon last week climbed Pilot Clyde Hoi-brook of American Air Lines, onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...
...commercial planes. From the U. S. S. Saratoga went two fleet Navy fighters. On roads and mountain byways roamed grey-clad State troopers. All that day and night and all next morning they hunted high & low in the rough Catskill Mountain country. At noon on the second day Pilots William H. Hallock and Lee Lewis flew low over a wooded peak at Mongaup Park, known locally as "Last Chance Hill," spotted the burned wreckage of NC 12354, the incinerated remains of Pilot Holbrook. Copilot Barron, Stewardess Huckeby & all four passengers. Airline officials deduced that Pilot Holbrook had turned westward...
...given hour spent as a passenger-carrying pilot in scheduled air-transport operation is about 88 times more likely to result fatally than the same hour spent on the ground. Pilots who carry mail & express but no passengers run a risk about 95 times normal; Army & Navy pilots, 170 times normal; Marine pilots, 480 times normal...