Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter also elaborated Father Davison's cable of last month: ''Got small bull elephant" (TIME, Aug. 14). He slew the first bull, Mrs. Davison the next, a larger one; Pete Quesada, their airplane pilot, the first...
...away. The cockpit of his ship, the Santa Lucia, was a museum of gadgets and curious supplies-eight watches, two colored kites, fishing tackle, a stomach pump to draw liquids from six vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren and water-squirter to wake up the pilot if he dozed. He was going to sit over the oil tank, so that the uncomfortable heat would keep him awake. As he yelled good-by a fanatical gleam...
...Absolutely liable for injury to persons or property on the land or water beneath" is the plane owner, by statutes in most of the 48 States. The pilot is liable only for the result of his own negligence. But since a crashed plane destroys most clues to negligence, pilots are rarely charged. If the Department of Commerce's post-crash investigation shows that the pilot abandoned his plane unnecessarily, or too hastily, his license may be revoked. But in general aviation etiquet leaves the problem of whether to jump or not to jump entirely to the pilot...
Another kind of pilot was at the controls of a blazing plane over France one night last week, on the regular Paris-Marseilles mail run. The wireless operator went over the side but the pilot pumped his extinguisher until he had put out the fire. Then he flew on to Lyons; the wireless operator caught up by train...
...Curtiss-Wright appealed on the grounds that: i) Mr. Glose had automatically limited damages to $10,000 by accepting the printed form ticket; 2) as the plane's sole passenger he had "chartered" it; and 3) there had been no negligence on the part of Pilot Percy C. Henry Jr. who was also killed when he tried to land his plane to avoid heavy fog immediately ahead...