Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared in several cinemas, run a Manhattan night club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice for $1,000,000. Lately he has made a hobby of aviation, become a pilot himself. Last year he set a world amphibian altitude record, since bettered...
Deciding on a transatlantic flight. Crooner Richman had a special Wright Cyclone engine installed in his smgle-motored $95,000 Vultee monoplane Lady Peace. For a co-pilot he picked Eastern Air Lines' No. 1 Flyer Henry Tindall ("Dick"') Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually...
...Everything's lovely,'' grinned Benny Howard, as attendants retanked his speedy little white monoplane Mister Mulligan at Wichita, Kan. one morning last week. With his pretty wife Maxine at his side, his sleek, self-designed plane functioning perfectly, Pilot Howard had reason to be pleased. Competing in the famed Bendix Transcontinental Race from New-York's Floyd Bennett Field to Los Angeles for the opening of the 1936 National Air Races. he already had a commanding lead...
Because of three spectacular withdrawals, his competitors were less formidable than they were in last year's Bendix Race when Pilot Howard flew Mister Mulligan to victory only 24 seconds ahead of Colonel Roscoe Turner. Fortnight ago, Colonel Turner cracked up on the way East for the race, was hospitalized with minor hurts. Flyer S. J. Wittman also had to quit on the way East when his plane caught fire at Cheyenne. Major Alexander P. de Seversky, designer of the world's fastest pursuit ship, was refused permission by the Army to fly it in the Bendix Race...
Elimination did not stop when the race began. Gar Wrood's Northrop Gamma, with Pilot Joe Jacobsen alone aboard, lost a wing as it was streaking across Kansas. Thrown free, Pilot Jacobsen was knocked unconscious, came to just in time to pull his ripcord, float safely to earth as his plane caught fire, exploded...