Word: testpilot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...
Last week, in response to a Navy call for bombing craft, Curtiss presented its new Wasp-powered XF8C-4 biplane at Mitchell Field, L. I. Testpilot William Crosswell put the ship through gruelling 7,000-ft. vertical dives, throttle wide open, levelling off suddenly at 300 m. p. h. His observer was taken so ill that a substitute was necessary...