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Danish-born Pilot William Ulbrich, 31, Italian-born Dr. Leon Martocci Pisculli, Manhattan gynecologist, and Edna New comer, 28, a pretty, plumpish brunette nurse from Williamsport, Pa. Also aboard was a woodchuck named Tailwind. Announced purpose of the expedition was to permit Dr. Pisculli to study the effects of fatigue on transatlantic flyers. Believing that many ocean flights have ended tragically because of carbon monoxide gas in the cabin, Dr. Pisculli took along Woodchuck Tailwind (more susceptible to the gas than humans) as a safety gauge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Jumping Nurse | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...year-old bachelor, Dr. Pisculli was a founder of the American Nurses' Aviation Service, organized to serve in time of floods, storms and other disasters. It was as a representative of A. N. A. S. that Nurse Newcomer, a licensed pilot, joined the flight. She expected to spell Pilot Ulbrich on the 40-hour grind to Rome. When the plane passed over Florence, Italy, Nurse Newcomer, who had taken lessons in parachute jumping, planned to bail out as a gesture in honor of First Nurse Florence Nightingale. Dressed in a white riding habit, she carried a dress which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Jumping Nurse | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...Pisculli's medical kit were a hypodermic needle, a stethoscope, smelling salts, lamb's wool and almond oil to stuff in their ears to prevent deafness. In the larder were three roast chickens, a dozen raw eggs, tomatoes, oranges, chocolate bars, tea tablets, honey to sweeten the tea, chewing gum and special aviation biscuits invented by Dr. Pisculli. If the plane were forced down at sea, the party had a three-pound still to distill salt water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Jumping Nurse | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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