Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Island one morning last week, a small motor truck containing a radio transmitter set off for an unannounced point an hour's drive away. Hour or so later an American Airlines transport ship took off from the same field. Mounted horizontally just behind the throttles between the pilot and co-pilot was a circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer on the bearing. Following this bearing, the plane chased over villages...
...military-minded, the demonstration proved that even a mobile enemy radio unit would have to be extremely laconic to avoid detection; to the airline safety-minded, it meant that a pilot off his course could orient himself almost as fast as he could tune in radio bearings...
...feet off the ground. Sensitive at present to 5,000 feet, improvements in the tube and transmitter can extend the altimeter's effectiveness to 15,000 feet. As feeler for possible obstructions dead ahead, the present 5,000-foot range would be inadequate because it would give a pilot flying three miles a minute less than 20 seconds in which to climb out of danger...
...When an airplane climbs so steeply that its wings lose lifting power, it stalls, falls. Last week Langley Field engineers introduced a gadget that senses the loss of lift, blows a horn to warn the pilot...
Died. Harold Snead, 40, chief pilot of the Eastern Region of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., who never had an accident flying as a commercial pilot; of heart disease; in Newark...