Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconds or five minutes sooner, Death would have cut short an extraordinary career. Daredevil Ridge, 28, has long been willing to risk Death for Science. Three years ago he appeared at a Boston airport, said he wanted to photograph a hotel, hired a cabin plane. In mid-flight the pilot looked back, saw that Ridge had put on a parachute, was ready to jump. He flipped the plane into a wingover that sent the would-be jumper sprawling to the floor, kept him there by repeated wingovers until he got back to port...
...daredevil then wangled a flight in a National Guard plane. He jumped despite the profane imprecations of the pilot, dropped 1,000 ft. before pulling the ripcord, landed unhurt on the frozen Charles River, was arrested by police for leaving an airplane "for a feat of daring." First victim of the Massachusetts law which forbids any but emergency parachute jumps, he was given a three-month sentence which was later suspended...
...André Malraux is a handsome young writer who has done some poking around in French Indo-China. In 1933 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, top French literary kudos. Last month in a plane borrowed from a friend in the airmail service he and Capt. Corniglion Molinier, army pilot, took off from Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost...
Last week Will Rogers flew across the continent, landed in Newark during a blizzard. It was the day after the U. S. Army began to fly the mails. Mr. Rogers paid tribute in his daily syndication to the courage of the Army pilot who, although new to the job, that day flew mail over the same route through the same blizzard. Five days later, seated in the Waldorf-Astoria, Will Rogers commented to newshawks on the wreck of a United Air Lines plane in Utah: "Grand feller, that Lloyd Anderson. I'd flown with him several times and with...
...first week of airmail carrying came to an end the Army totaled up its score. Five pilots were dead, three of them killed fortnight ago before the Army officially took over. Six pilots were more or less seriously injured. Eight planes were wreckage. Aside from lost man power and morale, the Army Air Corps, according to conservative estimates, was out $300,000-$25,000 for each of the lost planes, $20,000 in insurance and training costs for each dead pilot...