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...TOMLINSON Lieut. Comdr., AF, USNR Commanding Officer Squadron VN-17RD9...
TIME regrets mistaking the manner of TWA Pilot Tomlinson's leaving the Navy, from whose Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur he received the following sentiments when his honorable resignation was accepted in 1929: "The Department regrets that you find it necessary . . . and will feel the loss of your services. It is hoped that you will enjoy prosperity, health and happiness in civil life...
...made a big splash of headlines by coining the word "over-weather." Theory was that at 35,000 ft. it was always clear, always calm, all winds were steady. That this was not entirely the case was presently proved by TWA's crack Test-Pilot Daniel W. ("Tommy") Tomlinson. Burly and devil-may-care, he learned his flying in the Navy's celebrated acrobatic-team of Sea Hawks, of whom he is the sole survivor. Known as "Indian Joe" to the fleet, Tomlinson would stunt at night with lights out so officers could not see him. Eventually...
...Pilot Tomlinson's most risky and most important substratosphere flight took place last January. Ordered to bring his Gamma to Manhattan for the Aviation Show, he and his assistant, Engineer James Heistand, deliberately took off from Kansas City in the worst possible weather, climbed to 36,000 ft. where they were still not on top of the bad weather. Nor could Tommy reach the top, thus exploding the "overweather" theory for that level at any rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing...