Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here's another interesting one. Pickwick Started about three years ago to operate Observation-Dining cars along the California Coast High-Way, between San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. These stages now have upper decks, raised pilot houses for drivers, lavatory, radio, kitchen, and chef who prepares and serves hot meals while the cars are in motion...
Doubts were resolved, wonder ceased when the wires flashed word from Wales that Pilot Wilmer Stultz had guided the Friendship safely to a landing in the Burry inlet on the north side of the Bristol channel. Observed "Lady Lindy," casually: "We are short of gasoline." She was right. The plane had used the last gallon of fuel...
...Wilmer Stultz, expert pilot...
Jack Knight, air mail pilot on the Omaha-Cheyenne route, told his messmates: "I saw something on the wing wire. It was a sparrow. It didn't move. I taxied half way across the field. I speeded up. It fell off. The floodlight was on and I could still see it. The bird flew and caught up with me. Well, it landed right on that wire again...
Miss Earhart is an experienced pilot, licensed in May, 1923, a former holder of the altitude record for women fliers, but Miss Boll was led to take up trans-atlantic flying last summer by the ambition to show New Yorkers her Parisian sweater woven from gold links. Lady Lindy flies in a trimotored Fokker, equipped with pontoons and two radio sets, while the Diamond Queen has chosen the single-motored Columbia, trans-atlantic veteran with no pontoons and no radio. Backing Miss Earhart are the advice of Commander Byrd, the promoting wisdom of George Palmer Putnam and the wealth...