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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actors nor director but to Warner Brothers' technicians and cameramen who arranged the funny and highly exciting stunt flying that is the climax of the action. It is all about a timid novelist who, as the author of a work on aviation, has to go up in a plane for the first time in his life. In The Hottentot, Edward Everett Horton, able farceur of this piece, was a fake jockey whom the horses frightened more than anything else in the world. The Aviator is a rewrite of The Hottentot and Horton works his familiar comic business into...
...Postmaster General, Warren Irving Glover (TIME, Oct. 21). Mr. Glover closely examined all the operators' books-a sight no man ever had before him. What he learned formed the basis of his superior's solution, which is: to contract with the operators for a certain amount of plane space, whether or not that space is always filled with mail, and to pay them a stated amount for every mile traveled. The base would be $1 per mile for 1,500 lb. of mail capacity. Where mail is usually small the base might be 30 cents per mile...
...except for the military services, is entirely a private enterprise.* The Dominion Government has made it semi-public by its aid to the Light Aeroplane Clubs. Twenty-two such clubs are now active.† The members contribute dues which pay for an instructor and a light plane (Moths or Airo Avians chiefly). The Government contributes a second plane. More than 5.000 members now belong to the clubs. Last year 231 earned private pilot's licenses, 73 commercial licenses. Largest club is Calgary's with more than 1,000. Saskatoon has more than 600. Winnipeg's members flew...
Hangars are another rarity in the Dominion. Planes are parked out-of-doors. In winter, mechanics build themselves a three-walled shack of lumber or snow, run the nose of the plane in, drape the opening with tarpaulins. An oil stove keeps motors from freezing, the mechanics warm enough to work...
...pursuit tactics to the acid test under extremely rigorous weather conditions, and to afford a very broad opportunity for testing flying equipment in zero temperatures" the ist Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps long planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then...