Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dire need Soviet Russia is for capable, trained personnel. The Maxim Gorki, largest land-plane in the world, crashed in the worst airplane disaster in history (see p. 56). Russian designed, Russian built, the plane was technically perfect, might never have fallen but for the childish desire of a stunt pilot named Blagin to do tricks in dangerous proximity to the great plane...
...This stunt can also be worked by a ballyhoo man dressed in cape and black hood...
...safe to say that the delivered A. E. F. American airplanes cost $1,000,000 each." The original Liberty engine he calls "a complete washout-designed overnight in a hotel room by a group of engineers who shut themselves in and lived on buttermilk-or pulled some such publicity stunt...
Following dinner, which will be served in the Houses, the Seniors will form in the Triangle and march to the Stadium for the program beginning at 2 o'clock. Here Vincent Palmer will greet the assemblage with the Ivy Oration, followed by a stunt by the Class of 1910, the cheering for President Conant, the response by Conant, and coming to a conclusion with the usual savage confetti battle...
...think TIME went in for that sort of thing. ... I am one of those who are pretty enthusiastic about flying, and I have a hard enough time selling the idea to my family with all the publicity that is given to aviation accidents. Now I realize that stunt parachute jumps have little to do with the safety of flight, but most of the public doesn't see it in that way. It is all aviation to them, and such a picture doesn't encourage them to go out and buy a ticket on an air line the next...