Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ships have found radiotelephone profitable and 20 liners on the Atlantic and one on the Pacific now have regular ship-shore service, as do fishing smacks out of Boston, a few yachts, tugs and pilot boats in the harbors of New York, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia...
...Pilot and cameraman were rescued with minor injuries, certain parts of the ship salvaged, and the rest left, half submerged, on the beach...
...Woman I Love (RKO). Lieutenant Jean Herbillion (Louis Hayward), the night before he goes to join his escadrille, falls in love with a handsome Parisienne (Miriam Hopkins) who tells him her name is Denise. At the front, he becomes the close friend and plane-mate of a moody pilot named Lieutenant Claude Maury (Paul Muni). When Herbillion goes on leave, Maury gives him a note for his wife, Hélène Maury. Hélène and Denise turn out to be the same person. The triangle is straightened out when, back at the front, Herbillion gets...
...guard against dangerous pilot fatigue, the Bureau of Air Commerce forbids airline pilots to fly scheduled planes more than 1,000 hours a year, 100 hours a month, 30 hours a week or eight hours in every 24. If any pilot exceeds these maximums, he is fined $500. Last week a parallel regulation for truck drivers was underscored as Magistrate's Court in Flushing, L. I. brought in the first conviction under a new State law forbidding truck drivers to drive more than ten hours in any consecutive 14. The culprit was one Joseph Simon. Inspector Samuel Sussman...
...eagerly waiting is Pan American Airway's famed Direction Finder system, the manufacturing rights to which cagey Vincent Bendix acquired last month. A complex mechanism by far the best of its kind in the world, it works from the ground, locates a plane precisely the instant the pilot asks his position. Its range...