Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contract for a balloon with a capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas. With this bag. tall as a 30-story building, the U. S. Army (in conjunction with the National Geographic Society) plans to make two stratosphere flights, one in June and another in September. The pilots will be Major William Kepner, qualified pilot of every type of aircraft, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, air photography expert. Their balloon will be five times as large as the Navy balloon which made the official altitude record of 61,237 ft. last Autumn (TIME, Nov. 27), three...
Hero of this Antarctic antic was Chief Airplane Pilot Harold June. With two others he took off in the expedition's big Curtiss Condor, equipped with ski landing-gear, for a reconnaissance flight. In the take-off the wind whipped the skis back until they hung vertically from beneath the plane. Someone had forgotten to attach restraining wires from the toes of the skis to the wing struts. Pilot June was told by radio from the Jacob Ruppert what was wrong. Co-Pilot B. M. Bowlin crawled out on the wing, lost his cap and a glove...
...score of the Ruppert's crew scrambled out upon the ice with fire extinguishers, bandages and iodine ready for a bad crash. In less skillful hands than Pilot June's the plane probably would have gouged her skis into the ice, somersaulted into a heap. Coolly he pulled his Condor's nose up almost to the stalling angle, squashed the ship's tail into the snow. The skis bounced up into a near horizontal. In that split second Pilot June set the ship down safely...
...would fly 544 m. p. h., or 72% as fast as the speed of sound. Such a ship would have a tubular fuselage 40 in. in diameter, a single tapered wing of 29 ft. span. Its surface would be perfectly smooth, its engine enclosed, cooled by skintype radiators. The pilot would see either through transparent panels in the fuselage, or indirectly by mirrors...
Just why he was out of a job was in dispute. United Air Lines said he had taken a leave of absence last autumn to attend NRA hearings in Washington, that he had neither returned to work nor communicated with the company, thereby automatically ousting himself. Pilot Behncke said he reported for work at Chicago Dec. 22, when he was called into the office of Vice President D. B. Colyer and discharged for four reasons: 1) he had not secured proper permission to attend NRA hearings; 2) the company assumed he had severed connections; 3) his activities and utterances...