Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked, but continued climbing till it was 2,000 ft. up. Suddenly it faltered, nosedived, crashed. Dead in the broken cabin was Pilot Van Damme. Only cause of the accident which occurred to observers...
History. Josef Berger, of Provincetown, Mass, and the Federal Writers' Project, author of Cape Cod Pilot-to collect in a book the tall tales of Portuguese fishermen in Gloucester and other New England ports...
John Pierpont Morgan sued Manhattan's Sound & Harbor Towing Corp. for $3,500. Reason: A scow towed by a tug bumped his 343-foot, turboelectric yacht, Corsair. Banker Morgan accused the tugboat pilot of 1) negligence, 2) attempting to leave the scene of the accident...
...Lawrence Lowell '77, President Emeritus, entered a complaint to Secretary Hull last night on the revocation of his pilot's license by the Federal Department of Commerce and the Massachusetts Bureau of Airways...
...World War, Fritz Wilhelm Hammer in the years that followed made for himself a place in German civil aviation equivalent to that occupied by the late Captain Ed Musick in the U. S. In South America he established and flew lines in Brazil and Ecuador. When Dornier needed a pilot for its mammoth DO-X, Fritz Hammer was recalled to take the great twelve-motor airplane on its long transatlantic trips. Last week from the rocky Cordilleras came the details of 49-year-old Captain Hammer's last flight...