Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dallies with a pilot's widow (Lillian Bond), Miller has to leave his girl (Gloria Stuart) to fly the mail. Naturally, even an honest aviation picture must contain a crash and rescue; this time they happen when Miller cracks up in a snowstorm and Talbot flies a stolen plane into the mountains to bring him back. Good shot: Desert Airport on Christmas night, with a pattern of planes rising in the lighted snowy...
...press of a button by Governor Rolph in California, a plane despatcher at Newark Airport, N. J. waved his red flag one night last week at a Ford tri-motor, just christened The Comet. (Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh who had been expected to act as despatcher watched from the background.) Pilot Robert Le Roy raced his idling motors, taxied across the floodlit field; The Comet roared up into the western night. Next evening it alighted in Los Angeles...
Commercial transport operators puffed with pride over the San Diego incident as a graphic demonstration of advances in what they call "instrument" (rather than ''blind") flight. In addition to radio, both for beacon reception and conversation, the United Air Lines plane was equipped with rate-of-climb indicator, artificial horizon and directional gyro, helpful instruments which the Navy planes lacked...
...Department of Commerce order effective Jan. 1. After that date all pilots in interstate passenger service must: 1) have logged 1,200 hr. solo in the last eight years, 500 hr. cross country; 2) have 75 hr. solo night flight; 3) in a hooded cockpit, maneuver a plane through turns, banks, climbs, spirals, recover from stalls, spins, skids, slips, and head the plane on a specified course...
...cylinder type is said to weigh 125 lb., and to develop 90 h.p., 180 m.p.h. Pilot Naseef said he had taken the air 48 sec. after starting the motor, after it had stood idle for five hours. Pilot Naseef won local fame when he landed his light plane in front of a hospital, flew home with his wife and 13-day-old daughter...