Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilpatric, author of The Compleat Goggler and inventor of the sport, was a professional aviator who climbed to a passenger altitude record after three months as a licensed pilot, an advertiser who climbed to a vice-presidency after 13 years with Manhattan's Federal Advertising Agency. Then he escaped to the French Riviera to write popular stories about a Scottish engineer. His spare time he passed in fencing and pistol shooting until he found scaly targets more interesting...
...land. Long a U. S. citizen, married to a U. S. girl, Alexander de Seversky joined the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserve, rose to the rank of major. In 1931 he organized his own company at Farmingdale, L. I., of which he is president, chief designer and test pilot. Many a Seversky design has been derided, but his planes in the air are fast, radical, practical, and he is producing them at the almost unequaled rate...
...over 5,500 homes, 200 lives (see p. 16). On course and on time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves, 35, a million-mile veteran, turned back, and apparently flew straight into the swirling heart of the storm. An hour later the plane was seen 500 ft. above raging San Joaquin River, surrounded by rocky mountain peaks. Thereafter, six days of search produced no trace...
...record: 21 enemy planes shot down. Germany's No. 1 Ace Manfred von Richthofen: 80. France's Rene Fonck: 75. Canada's William Avery ("Billy") Bishop: 72. *The Bureau of Air Commerce lists 17,983 active Pilot Certificates of Competency, 40,006 active Student Pilot Certificates...
...Hearst plane, carrying International Socialites Terence Conyngham Baron Plunket and Dorothé Lewis Barnato Lady Plunket to visit Publisher Hearst's San Simeon Ranch, glided down to San Luis Obispo field in a heavy fog. The pilot overshot his mark, crashed. All three were killed. Next night, in Reno's various clubs, including Club Fortune, Mrs. Lois Clarke de Ruyter Spreckels Clinton, her divorced sugar-heir husband, Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., and two friends toasted each other until all hours. Before dawn they boarded Mr. Spreckels' private plane to fly to San Francisco. The plane rose...