Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berkane, border town in French Morocco, sounded the mighty roar of airplane motors last week. A flight of huge bombing planes was boring west toward the Spanish border. Suddenly engines choked, sputtered for lack of gasoline. One plane dropped into the sea. Another smashed up on landing, killing the pilot, two members of the crew and seriously injuring another. A third got down safely, but with empty tanks...
...many lands editorial writers were stimulated by the Lindbergh Message to voice in various ways the thought that if Presidents and Premiers only had the intelligence required to take an airplane engine apart, put it together again, get it started and pilot the plane, they might also be able to make the League of Nations and a good many other things work...
Died. Earle Lewis Ovington, 57, first commissioned U. S. air mail pilot; after long illness; in Los Angeles. In 1911 he flew a mail sack two miles from Garden City to Mineola, L. I. on nine successive days...
Artist Saint's seven sons include Sam, 24, writer, licensed pilot and glassmaker; Phil, 23, a '"cartoonist-evangelist" who last year contributed a religious comic strip to The Presbyterian Guardian (TIME, Oct. 28); and David ("Scelp"), 19, who blossomed out as a self-taught sculptor at 15. Most commercial member of the family is Xathanael ("Thanny"),11, who has a Philadelphia Bulletin paper route. Their mother & sister keep house, supervise some 30 meals...
...Pilot Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., won the $500 Du Pont prize, with an altitude of 6,516 ft., beating the U. S. record set by Richard du Pont in 1934. Pilot Don Stevens had himself towed up to 18,000 ft. by a plane, looped 93 times on the way down, a U. S. record. When the meet was over, gliders and sail planes had soared a total of 321 hours. 1,178 miles in 274 flights. U. S. champion was Chester Decker (295 points). Second with 288 was Richard du Pont, last year's champion...