Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter, not a single airliner crashed because of weather. But other troubles reared their ugly heads. Two of the three crashes of the past five months, it was officially revealed last week, were due to mechanical failure. The third was United's West Coast mishap, due to egregious pilot error (TIME, March...
Crash experts of CAA's Air Safety Board attributed Braniff's crash to the left engine's throwing a cylinder. As Pilot Claude Seaton turned back to the field the disintegrating motor apparently ripped open its cowling, forming such a centre of head resistance that the ship slewed sidewise into the ground. Like the Braniff crash, the crack-up of a Northwest Airlines Lockheed near Miles City, Mont. Jan. 13 was due to mechanical failure. Last week CAA announced its apparent cause: a fire, originating in a floorboard compartment in the pilot's cabin through which...
Born. To Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, 42, crack Eastern Air Lines pilot who made the first round-trip hop between the U. S. and Europe; and Martha Virginia ("Toby") Wing, 22-year-old cinemactress: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Fortnight ago newshawks found out they had been married since last June...
...midst of a cast of seasoned professionals like Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong and Cora Witherspoon, threaten to be embarrassing. As the story proceeds, examining Corrigan's weary scrimpings to pay for flying lessons and then for his own plane; his painfully ineffectual efforts to become a transport pilot; finally, the well-planned exploit which brought him fame, his failings as an actor become the virtues of realism. Thus, The Flying Irishman is raised from the level of a routine Hollywood quickie to that of a sincere and curiously effective cinematic document...
...Author last year showed his knack for popularization in his bestseller, Kindling, the tale of a Banker Bountiful who rescues an unemployed shipyard town. More effective, Ordeal gives him material closer home. Pilot in the Royal Air Force Reserve, Author Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway) was deputy chief engineer (later chief) of construction of the airship R100, sailed with her on the first trip to Canada. In 1931 he formed an airplane company, saw it grown to 1,000 employes when he resigned last April. Ordeal to the contrary, Author Shute declares he is no alarmist. Average casualty rate...