Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, the Bremen dropped from the sky above Dublin on March 26. Three head-erect Germans stepped from her cabin: Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian nobleman, owner of the plane; Capt. Hermann Koehl, stolid flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...
...competition will be an altitude contest, which is preferred to a speed race since it is safer and is won by the skill of the pilot rather than by the power of the engine. Each club enters three pilots, who are listed to compete in separate tests...
Landing is far more difficult than flying, but new instruments tested last week in Paris promise to make it easy. Henry Farman, air pioneer, and half a dozen French army pilots tested instruments that can be used in darkest night or fog, because they make sight unnecessary. Where the pilot has confidence that a clear field lies below, he can trust the new instruments to register exact distances from the ground...
...there a cautious transatlantic flier, then his name is Capt. Hermann Koehl, pilot of this German expedition. In this same ship, the Bremen, he started for America late last summer, got over Ireland, found the hazards impossible to negotiate, and turned back home to try again some happier...
Capt. Hermann Koehl is a veteran pilot of the War, shot down twice by the French, taken prisoner the second time only to escape from a prison camp and make a tortuous way back to Germany. He is 40, married but childless, is old for a pilot. "Blind flying," night flying so essential to a transatlantic pilot, is his specialty...