Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week a new all-metal, twin-motored monoplane, bright with red, white & blue Air Corps paint, was rolled out on the runway at Los Angeles' Municipal Airport. From a distance grease monkeys and pilots rubbered at her sleek, narrow fuselage, her one-seat pilot cabin, her tricycle landing gear. To trained ears the roar of her motors indicated an unusual concentration of horsepower...
...know about speeds above 400 miles an hour," ruefully admitted the Army's greying Early-Bird pilot. "We are told that engines in the wings will deliver 30% more power at speeds over 300 miles an hour, and we ought to find that out, because we could use that added horsepower in more speed...
...whose business demands loyalty and hard work and also offers real advancement in proportion to ability and experience. Married; no children; college trained; teaching experience; four and one-half years payroll, junior accounting and general office experience. Freemason, former Boy Scoutmaster, writing experience, general aptitude for mechanics, capable amateur pilot, now president of local flying club and ground school lecturer, good public speaker, excellent physique, like people and know how to get along with them. Prefer connection with up and coming company in aviation, but will consider any opportunity...
Like many another pilot's wife, Mrs. "Cash" Chamberlain has listened for years at 3,105 kilocycles on the short-wave radio for her husband's cheery voice while he, a 1,000,000-mile veteran, was on his Northwest Airlines runs. One night last week, after she had heard his buoyant "okay" as he left the plateau airport at Miles City, Mont., his voice suddenly came in again, strained, desperate: "Dispatcher! Dispatcher!" Later that night she learned that he, his crack copilot, Raymond B. Norby, and their two passengers were dead. Just out of Miles City...
Handsome, 42-year-old Assen Jordanoff has never flown around the world, but in the last few years he has collected lots of money. In his early U. S. years he was barnstormer, instructor (he gave a ground lesson to the late Thomas Alva Edison), movie consultant and test pilot. By 1929 he was able to set down his flying notions in good plain English in newspapers and magazines. In 1932 he turned out a book, Flying, and How To Do It, that sold mightily for a dollar. On the strength of this, Funk & Wagnalls engaged him to write...