Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends. Various stars and orders were handed by George VI to such people as the captain of the yacht on which Edward & Mrs. Simpson cruised; to the most convivial of the ex-King's equerries, Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird; and to Edward VIII's air pilot, Wing Commander Edward Hedley ("Mouse") Fielden. When famed "Mouse" did not elect to serve the Duke of Windsor, London newspapers printed that he has retained under George VI his Edward-invented rank, "Captain of the King's Flight," but in listing him last week for the Royal Vic orian...
...Boats are classified by sail areas. Smaller boats may race in classes for larger boats. Winner in Class A (350 sq. ft. of sail) was The Fritz, a $2,000 craft, holder of the trophy donated by William Randolph Hearst in 1904, owned by Fred Jungbluth of Madison, Wis., piloted by Carl Bernard. Its best speed over the 12-mile windward-leeward course was 31 min. 51 sec. Class B (250 ft.) was won by Su-Jac III, Pilot H. V. Fitzcharles of Lake Geneva, Wis. Class C (175 ft.): Holy Smoke III, Pilot Don Campbell of Delavan, Wis. Skeeter...
...class with his Dorla) and William have aided him. Chiefly to them is credited the idea of having the steering runner at the front instead of stern so that when the wind lifts the rear end off the ice, the pilot can still steer and so avoid dangerous spins...
...carried an astonishing picture of a man on skis propelling himself off the ground by puffing into a pair of rotors. It turned out to be an April Fooler concocted by the editors of Germany's Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung. Year later, another story blossomed in Germany-that a pilot named Dünnbeil had shot his glider into the air with a rubber cable, flown 700 yd. by pumping furiously on a treadle. This flight, authenticated by the German Air Sport League, was still a compromise of human and mechanical power. Last week, however, the feat which Icarus...
...seamen from cooks to mates, assume the responsibility for the safety of the passengers and cargoes. He is perfectly willing that the steamship companies should continue to shoulder this burden; all he wants is to dictate whom the companies shall employ. But there is as yet no "automatic pilot" for ships, and the human element is still by far the most important. Obviously therefore, aside from all consideration of the inherent unfairness of the monopolistic demand of Mr. Bridges, human safety demands that those responsible be given unfettered freedom to select men who will provide that safety...