Word: testpilot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides Pilot Hinkler's evident ability as a distance flyer and navigator. Editor Grey portrays him as a smart inventor but a poor businessman; an extraordinary testpilot but utterly lacking in tact? "quite capable of going to a managing director and telling him that if he really wants to make money out of aeroplanes the best thing he can do is pension off his chief designer just for the sake of keeping him away from the Design Office...
...where he was because, after an excellent record as testpilot for the Lockheed factory, he got a job as aerial chauffeur for Frank C. Hall, onetime drug clerk who struck a fortune in Oklahoma oil. In this same plane, named for the oilman's daughter Mrs. Winnie Mae Fain, Post won the Los Angeles-Chicago air derby last year. Then Hall financed him for the attempt to break the round-world record of the Graf Zeppelin-21 days...
...Little Rock, Ark.: "I have no objection to Mr. Fokker's saying that Balchen did the better job on the transatlantic flight than I did. I have always felt that way myself." Said Bernt Balchen, shy by nature and embarrassed by his present position as a Fokker testpilot: "I don't know where Tony got all his information; but there are no mistakes in it." From Noville in Los Angeles: "Byrd commanded, and the rest of us, including Balchen, took orders. Acosta was the best flyer aboard." From Acosta in New York: "If I had anything...
...pieces. In September the late Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy testflew an identical plane for Bromley. Part of the tail surfaces washed away. Fahy was severely injured. Last week Bromley's third Tacoma-Tokyo ship burst into flames over the Mojave desert, near the Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif. Testpilot M. W. Catlin was horribly burned...
...University and chairman of the N. A. C. A., the visitors saw latest developments in the committee's research facilities: ¶ A motion picture camera designed to photograph all the dials on an airplane instrument board during a test flight, permitting later study far more detailed than a testpilot's pencilled log could afford. ¶ A "recording multiple manometer'' which registers the varying pressures upon 120 distinct portions of the wings during all maneuvers...