Word: radioman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch trawler fished from the water near the Orkney Islands a package containing the papers of an American, turned it over to the U. S. Consul at Amsterdam. The papers proved to be the pilot's license, passport and permit of Parker ("Shorty") Cramer who was lost with Radioman Louis Oliver Pacquette last fall while flying a transatlantic survey from Detroit to Europe, via Greenland and Iceland, for Transamerican Airlines Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). 2) While the consul was scanning the papers, the Icelandic Althing (Parliament) passed a bill giving Transamerican Airlines the right to build a seaplane base...
...Salt Lake City, while a blinding snowstorm raged, the airport radioman heard the voice of Pilot Norman W. Potter, flying up from Oakland with the night transcontinental mail: "Eight miles north of Grantsville. Heavy snow. All O. K." He heard no more; Pilot Potter did not bring the mail in. Next day a searching party found him dead in the wreckage of his plane, under eight inches of snow, only ten miles from the Salt Lake airport. His mail cargo, scattered about, was recovered. Pilot Potter's death was the second in United Air Lines' five years operation...
...Copilot, radioman, steward and passengers plastered their noses against windows while Pilot Ormsbee banked lower & lower around an animated speck on the surface -a lifeboat. Someone in it was waving an oar with a shirt tied to the blade. . . . There seemed to be ten persons in the boat. . . . One of them looked something like a woman. . . . And over there, taking a terrific beating from the waves, was another man hanging to a broken hatch door...
Aboard the vessel matters run smoothly. No attempt is made to speed the motors or submit the craft to stress; this is the most elementary of a series of tests. The radioman flashes to the White House the Akron's first message, in reply to a radiogram signed "Lou Henry Hoover" who christened the ship (TIME, Aug. 10). A dinner of broiled chicken, salad, ice cream, cake and coffee is served from the galley. President Paul Weeks Litchfield does not eat. Says he later: "I was too excited. I don't get to ride in the world...
Northeast Passage (Cont'd). Pilot Parker ("Shorty") Cramer and Radioman Oliver Pacquette had just started the motor of their Bellanca seaplane and were taxiing across the little harbor of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, when a messenger came running down the waterfront, waving a yellow paper. It was a warning of gales on the course east to Copenhagen, where the flyers were about to complete their survey of a subarctic air mail route from the U. S. (TIME, Aug. 17). Officials signaled frantically to Cramer & Pacquette but the former mistook the gestures for farewells, circled the town, flew away over...