Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being investigated by a grand jury. Federal agents subpoenaed Judge Thomas to appear with his books and papers but failed to catch him with the summons before he sailed for Panama on the S. S. Santa Barbara. A radio to the captain to put Judge Thomas off with the pilot brought the message: "JUDGE CONTINUING TRIP...
...against an overhead baggage rack. He once watched ambulances gather below him at Newark when his ship could not get its landing gear down. He weathered innumerable forced landings and is one of the few air travelers who ever landed on an airport backwards. On that occasion the pilot overshot Chicago airport, bounced off the far end of the runway, cleared an embankment, and fetched up in a soggy meadow. The passengers sat, wondering what next, when suddenly the grounded airliner started backwards out of the swamp, rumbled over the embankment and back on the runway tail first, towed, they...
Before an army pilot even starts the four engines of a Boeing Flying Fortress he has some 50 switches, gauges and gadgets to check, calls each off to his co-pilot as he goes so that nothing is missed. Before he taxies away from the line he has another score or two of check jobs to do, is thereafter kept busy, on the take-off and in the air and returning to land with a complicated set of controls...
...take some of the load off the pilot, Curtiss-Wright Corporation last week announced a new wrinkle, to be used in its big CW20 transport under construction in its St. Louis factory. When the CW20 pilot is ready to land, he will throw a switch marked "land." A series of bulbs on the instrument board will light, and as he gets his landing gear down, lowers his flaps, cranks back his stabilizer, et al., the lights will go out, one by one. By other switches, he can check his operations for takeoff, or for any other operations. When the instrument...
After cavorting aloft for almost half an hour, the new bomber whipped low over the airport, climbed again to 3,000 feet and soared along at 300 m.p.h. Test Pilot John Cable then apparently cut one motor to try a climb on half power. Instead of climbing the ship went into a spin. John Cable bailed out at 500 feet, pulled the ripcord of his parachute too late, died on the ground. In a parking lot less than 50 feet from his body, the bomber demolished nine automobiles before it stopped...