Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile they had to maintain double safety performance minimums. First United pilot to pass these requirements was Alexander Raymond ("Tommy") Thompson, who ran a flying school and flew mail for 14 years before joining United in 1933. Last week he had flown about a million miles, had 147 hours flying experience in a Douglas, was regarded as one of the best pilots on the Coast...
...seven o'clock one night last week, Pilot Thompson took his sleek, twin-motored plane up from Burbank with Co-Pilot Joe De Cesaro (who also had flown 147 hours in a Douglas) beside him, pretty Hostess Ruth Kimmel aft taking care of the eight passengers. At 8:44, after an uneventful trip, Pilot Thompson radioed the dispatcher at Mills Field, San Francisco, that he was approaching, would land on the East-West runway. It was a clear, calm night and those at the airport soon saw the big plane droning in from the South at about...
...later the Philadelphia Ballet Company. When, in 1932, Stokowski gave the world premiere of the Mexican ballet H. P. (see col. 3), Catherine Littlefield plotted the choreography. Alexis Dolinoff danced the lead. When the Philadelphia Ballet ran short of men a year ago, Catherine Littlefield signed up her air-pilot brother, Carl. Last week he made a graceful Prince-from-the-West, easily outstripped the other minor characters. Another Littlefield, young sister Dorothie, also filled in ably...
...that they had to be taken back to Washington at once and sent to a hospital. Last week these two-George P. Kimmel, Washington patent lawyer, and Homer J. Byrd, Illinois State Superintendent of Registration & Education-were in court demanding $200,000 damages from the airline.* They contended the pilot should have warned them to fasten their safety belts. The airline retorted that the weather had not been bad, that bumps often come without warning, that the accident was unavoidable...
...naturalized U. S. citizen of 49, dark-eyed Enea Bossi was a pioneer pilot in Italy, taught famed Giuseppe Bellanca how to fly. Later he designed many successful ships, fought in the War, where he knew Corporal Benito Mussolini fairly well. Said Enea Bossi last week: "He's a big fella now. I've only seen him twice since he got to be a big fella...