Word: radioman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardy Pilot Cramer, accompanied by Radioman Oliver Pacquette, was on his way more than a week before he was discovered. From Detroit he flew his Diesel-powered plane to Hudson Bay, Great Whale, Wakeham Bay; thence to Pang-nirtung, Baffin Island; across the Davis Strait and across the Greenland ice cap-a route never before negotiated by airplane to Iceland; dropped down to the sea with engine trouble, made repairs, flew on to the Faroe Islands; the Shetlands; again eluded observers...
...stead of through all the intermediate points. Next step will be the installation of still stronger transmitters at New York and Los Angeles for direct transcontinental conversation. But the primary purpose of the system is for communication between planes in flight and the ground stations nearest them en route. Radioman Hoover designed the system and supervised the installations until tuberculosis laid him low. But it was carried to completion by his No. 1 assistant and childhood friend, pink-cheeked, modest John Curtis Franklin, 26. "Jack" Franklin and "Herbie" Hoover, close neighbors, attended grade school together in Palo Alto, Calif...
...months later Secretary Wilbur pinned the D. F. C. upon the breasts of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and Radioman Noville for the flight to France - a private venture backed by the late Rodman Wanamaker. "At the same table ... sat Bernt Balchen, Lieutenant in the Norwegian Naval Reserve . . . and Bert Acosta [who] had flown Byrd and Noville across the Atlantic ... to them, publicly, Secretary Wilbur expressed regret that because they were 'civilians' the law barred them from...
Right after the War, Coste flew for Air Union as a $25-per-week pilot on the new London-Paris route. His famed flying companion, Maurice Bellonte, was his navigator and radioman in that service. For all the talk of "millions" in store for them, Coste & Bellonte together realized no more than $100,000 from their 1930 trans-atlantic flight and all that went with it. According to Variety's Paris correspondence: "They came home tired and disillusioned. French Government carried them on the hip for $300,000. No way to get that back." Balbo's Squadron. Into...
...direction finder or "homing device" invented by Radioman Geodfrey G. Kruesi of Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A dial on his instrument board then shows him his direction of flight in relation to the position of the broadcasting station. Last week Inventor Kruesi took his invention to Asheville, N. C, there to confer with his ailing department chief Herbert Hoover Jr. Later he was to show it to Army...