Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Test Pilot (Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy; TIME, April...
Ervin Elzie Joy, 28, of Vancouver, Wash., operates a railroad drawbridge. In his spare time he is an Unlicensed air pilot and builds planes. After five years of patient tinkering, Inventor Joy produced a 28-foot, wingless, flat fuselage shaped like an attenuated sting ray, which he called a Flying Flapjack. Last week he announced that his Flapjack was ready for tests, almost ready for mass production, would revolutionize aviation. At Vancouver's Pearson Field one afternoon unlicensed Test Pilot Sidney Monastes climbed aboard, tuned the twin 38-h.p. motors, taxied out for the start. The Flapjack roared, reared...
...Test Pilot (Myrna Loy, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy; TIME, April...
...test pilot is to put new airplanes through stunts and strains they may never have to perform or withstand in normal use. This testing sometimes involves diving a ship at such terrific speed that leveling off causes it to break apart in midair. The pilot is then expected to bail out with his recorded observations. If a test pilot ends his career alive, he is considered lucky. Test Pilot'?, flying shots are among the best ever staged by cinema. But the picture is less concerned with the mechanics of test flying than it is with how test pilots...
...thoughtful story, by Lieut. Commander Frank Wead (Ceiling Zero, China Clipper), conceives two sodden-nerved men, one a swaggering, hard-living and egotistic pilot (Clark Gable), the other his patient, understanding mechanic (Spencer Tracy). On the fear-tortured mind of the flyer's wife (Myrna Loy) their almost brutal fatalism rasps like a file. Credit for blending this grounded mental conflict with the melodrama of wings in the air, screaming struts and whining motors goes to Director Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous). Not the least of his accomplishments was to exact performances that verge on reality from pert, actressy Myrna...