Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortcomings of Men With Wings are not due to Director William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman's lack of qualifications for his job. A Lafayette Flying Corps pilot during the War, he launched aviation as a major cinema subject with Wings in 1927, thereafter rated as one of the industry's top specialists in aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none...
Married. Captain Bruno Mussolini, 21, second son of Il Duce, Italian Royal Air Force pilot who found bombing the Ethiopians "most diverting"; and Gina Ruberti, 21, doe-eyed daughter of the head of the Ministry of Education's Contemporary Art Bureau; in Rome...
While Copilot Clyde Russell sprayed a fire extinguisher on the burning wing, Pilot Dave Hissong coolly took his time, retracted his wheels, came down belly-flat in a ditch-scarred field. Steward Frank Gibbs shoved each man as far into the open air as he could. They had not stumbled more than 20 yards when flames swept through the cabin...
...Irving, the ship's greying, trained-in-sail skipper, gave credit where credit seemed due-to the balmy weather and to St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers. No Roman Catholic, but a stanch Covenanter, Commodore Irving totes two St. Christophers, one a statue given him by a Galway pilot, the other a medal from a passenger. Swore he: "I spun that medal around and said, 'Well, St. Chris, what about it?' He said, 'Go to it.' " Next day sheepish operators and tug hands came to a hasty agreement. Said chagrined Tsar Ryan: "St. Christopher ought...
Married. Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 26, youngest son of Scotland's Premier Peer, like his eldest brother Douglas, Marquess of Clydesdale, a famed amateur boxer, airplane pilot, mountaineer; and 23-year-old Prunella ("Perfect Girl") Stack, head of Great Britain's Women's League of Health and Beauty; in Glasgow, Scotland...