Word: rodgerses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the Delaware River one afternoon last week a plane, sweeping for a landing, sideslipped, twirled awkwardly down to death. From the aerodrome on the bank a boat put out, men floundered into the water/ worked desperately to extricate the officer and mechanic in the cockpit. The latter, one Samuel...
John Augustus Rodgers, San Francisco-Honolulu flyer Master of Aeronautical Science
"Commander Rodgers, in command of the PN9 on the recent flight to Hawaii, states that there is no airplane in existence which would be able to come to this country across either ocean carrying a heavy military load, nor is the construction of one to be expected with known materials...
Commander John Rodgers, Commander of the PN9 No. 1, which made the attempted flight to Hawaii, declared that the arrangements for the flight were satisfactory, and blamed an error in bearings or a possible error in navigation as the cause of the failure of the flight.
In Lihue, on the island of Kauai, the men were given injections of morphine and put to bed in the dim alcoves of an ancient hotel to sleep the clock around. The Navy Department appointed Commander Rodgers Assistant Chief of the Aeronautics Bureau. In the U. S. thousands of mothers...