Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying is a constantly growing sport among Harvardians of pioneering and romantic spirit, but pilot John B. Stevens '38 will tell you that there are many angles to the sport. Ilis angle is an arboreal...
...terrible sensation," pilot Stevens declared. "We grabbed each other to see if we were both unhurt. Neither of us had a scratch. Then we slid down to earth...
...dismantled them. In the starboard engine they and Department of Commerce agents found a faulty master rod bearing and the crushed remnants of a link pin. That apparently accounted for the failure of one engine. Missing links to the disaster story were the failure of the other motor, and Pilot Brandon's failure to drop flares which would have shown him that the gully he crashed in was flanked by broad, roomy fields...
Those who knew the pilot agreed he must have been in a tight spot, for James L. ("Monty") Brandon was one of aviation's cool oldtimers. During the War he piloted the rattling biplanes of the British Royal Air Force as an instructor, afterwards fought in Russia for the White Army. He was one of the handful of commercial pilots with "1,000,000-mile" flying records. In May 1935, he flew influenza serum from Newark to the Eskimos of upper Alaska. Aboard was another air veteran-Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Test Pilot E. H. Veblen...
...Test Pilot (Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy; TIME, April...