Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maddalena. Nothing could have been more commonplace to three men in a sea plane that started a routine flight from Milan to Rome last week. All of them had crossed the South Atlantic with General Italo Balbo's roaring Triads (TIME, Jan. 19). Col. Umberto Maddalena, at the controls, was Italy's most decorated airman, most famed next to Balbo. He it was who, scouring the Arctic wastes in 1928, first sighted General Umberto Nobile and his party from the wrecked dirigible Italia, stranded on the ice near Spitsbergen. Sitting behind Col. Madda lena in the seaplane last week...
With the putting into service of its new training plane, the Harvard Flying Club is opening its second competition for membership in a meeting to be held in Sever 6 at 7.30 o'clock tonight. All undergraduates interested in learning to fly may enter the three weeks competition, which is held to select those who would make satisfactory members of the club...
...picked on a basis of interest and general fitness. After initiation the members will then spend about three months getting their pilot's license, which can be secured at half the usual cost through the Club. After this they will be eligible to use the Club's cabin plane for cross-country hope...
That, to the industry, was careful reporting and fair writing of an airplane accident. By giving proper emphasis to the fact that the plane was unlicensed and impliedly unairworthy,* the story was a warning to the reader against flying in unlicensed craft, at the same time created in him a sense of discrimination in favor of well-ordered air travel...
THREE KILLED IN CRASH OF UNLICENSED PLANE...