Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward Modernism. Vainly attempting to stave off the War, he died soon after its beginning, has been called its first victim. Last June brought the centenary of the birth of Giuseppe Sarto. Last week many a Catholic was praying that Pope Pius X be made a saint, the Boston Pilot recalling that since his death people have been gathering by his tomb in St. Peter's, that the first process on his holy virtues has now been completed. Fairest Flower, At a priests' meeting during the Seventh National Eucharistic Congress in Cleveland last September (TIME, Sept...
Greying, mustachioed, United Air Lines Pilot Grover Tyler, who landed his blazing plane in a grove of trees while flying between Seattle and.San Diego in 1931, saved his passengers with but minor injuries, managed to carry out the mail though the pouches were on fire...
Swart, bulky United Air Lines Pilot Roy H. Warner, who stayed with his burning plane even after his clothing was ignited on a 1930 flight from. Boise, Idaho, to Pasco, Wash., managed to land with one wing completely eaten away, saved his mail before an explosion demolished the wreck...
Before they could get there, the bomber pancaked into the smooth field, exploded, broke in two, spouted flames. In spite of the danger of more explosions, the two young officers wrapped their coats over their heads, plunged straight into the blaze, dragged out Leslie Tower, chief Boeing test pilot and Major Ployer P. Hill, flying chief at Wright Field, both badly burned. The other three occupants managed to crawl out by themselves...
Half a day later another Boeing plane cracked up. This one was a twin-motor transport being tested by United Air Lines. Taking off from Cheyenne at night in a gentle snowfall, it droned away with four aboard. Chief Test Pilot M. T. Arnold was on duty; three other United employes went along for a "pleasure ride." Twenty-five minutes later witnesses heard the motor falter overhead, saw a great fountain of flame in the darkness as the monoplane lunged into a knoll. By the time they reached the wreckage, little was left but a smoldering pile of twisted metal...