Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WOMAN finds paddling own canoe dreary task, seeks manly pilot...
...some two blocks long (763 feet) and her name is Count Zeppelin, nyth rigid airship of famed Zeppelin progeny. Last week, out of her hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, she emerged for her maiden flight, a short one. Her pilot was her designer-Dr. Hugo Eckener. She carried a crew of 30 and Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. Navy, lord of the Los Angeles...
...Eckener plans to pilot the Count Zeppelin to the U. S. and establish a regular trans-Atlantic passenger service, as the culmination of his career. Long before the World War, he worked with the late Count Zeppelin in converting the clumsy blimp into the streamlined airship. The change was essentially the perfection of a light and rigid duraluminum framework within the gas bag (envelope). The result was a superb instrument of war-with long cruising radius and many-bomb capacity. Terms of peace made it necessary for Dr. Eckener to bring Zeppelin ZR3 to the U. S., where...
...contraption which the curious observed had no horizontal stabilizer, but a "stagger" so pronounced that the lower wing itself was almost in the position of a stabilizer. It also had the eccentricity of a decolage, or angle of the lower wing in relation to 'the upper wing, and a pilot's seat placed back against the tail. Questions addressed to a nervous, alert, bearded little man, seldom far away, brought vociferous response supplemented by rapid curves and graphs sketched upon a pad always in hand, to prove the qualities of stability possessed by this unique craft. Having completed the professoriat...
Gilligan is perhaps better fitted as a halfback than as a quarterback, but the fact that he has had much experience as a pilot combined with the fact that good halfback material is plentiful this fall has led Coach Horween to keep him calling signals at least up until now. Gilligan directed a strong Exeter team through an entire season and starred on last year's first year aggregation. His ability as a ball carrier should make him a valuable asset in the Crimson attack this fall...