Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thanked them; excited and faintly afraid of the pushing Portugese she clung to the arm of Fred Morris Dearing, American Minister to Portugal. Lisbon revelled. As she stepped to the mainland of Europe (14 days almost to the hour after taking off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, with pilot George W. Haldeman for a transatlantic flight which ended when they were hoisted from the ocean off the Azores) Miss Elder limped slightly. She dismissed it, saying she had sprained an ankle en voyage from the Azores...
Never before in aviation has the pilot kept control of his machine while the machine stalled. U. S. aviators read the report intently; agreed the device seemed practicable; eagerly awaited models for tests...
Meanwhile, The American Girl bucked storms. Flying high, flying low, sleet and wind cut into her. Once Miss Elder, unafraid, climber out onto the tail of the ship to balance it. In perilous spells she relieved her co-pilot at the levers. Two thirds of the way across, they veered still further south of their course to avoid a low pressure storm area. Then the oil presure fell. Part of the gasoline supply had been dumped to lighten the ship in its fight against the storm. They knew that their time was short...
Five days later Dr. Logan confessed. U. S. papers delightedly printed first page stories of the hoax. Dr. Logan admitted she had ridden most of the way across in her pilot boat; averred she had done so with a purpose of confessing to warn the world that many of the recent channel swims looked "fishy." Believing that channel swimmers lie, she advocated an official board of supervision for channel swimmers; returned...
...Representative La Guardia got into an airplane and in few hours, whizzing westward, was looking down on the sprawling metropolygon that is Chicago. Landing for fuel at Chicago's municipal airport, Representative La Guardia's plane hit a rut, upended, shook up Representative La Guardia and his pilot, broke a propeller and a dinner engagement...