Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experienced pilot this snow-planing is no more difficult than flying with wheels. Safe landings can be made on any space of open ground, and if the space is limited, a plane may be mushed in to a complete stop in 200 feet...
...spots though generally a bit pedestrian and rather humorless. The entire action takes place in the central office of the Federal Air Lines which are presided over with ruthless efficiency by Jake Lee, one of the truly old hands. Tex Clark and Dizzy Davis are the two chief pilots, experienced filers of the old school, who refuse to submit to the new efficiency and demand a bit of fun now and then even if the mail or passengers are at stake. This Dizzy chap is quite a hand with the girls, but when he meets the lovely Tommy Thomas...
Many thanks for news of my nephew, Hewitt Frenyear Mitchell, airmail pilot, Shanghai to Peiping, who shared with a news correspondent a diplomatic resistance to Japanese searchers of his plane [TIME, Dec. 9]. Will you now give his correct name, and perhaps a few other facts? Born of New England ancestry, raised among the raisins of the San Joaquin Valley, he worked his way through Stanford largely by radio repairing, overcame parental doubts, took army aviation tests and found eyesight deficient in one minor point. His oculist, who had helped prepare army tests, advised special exercises for a year. Doggedly...
Hewitt Mitchell is now married to a former school friend and rearing a baby daughter who traveled some 10,000 mi. during her first three months. Back in Shanghai, flying through the fogs of the Yangtzekiang, and meantime training Pilot McCleskey for the new Shanghai-Chengtu Express, he is looking forward to a vacation and home next summer...
...Pilot Tex Rankin climbed to 19,800 ft., set an unofficial U. S. altitude record for light land planes...