Word: waghorn
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...others: Giovanni Monti, killed three weeks ago at Lake Garda; Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, died of injuries after a test flight crash last May; Tomaso Dal Molin, killed testing a plane in 1930; Lieut. Bonnet killed training for the races in 1929; Capt. Giuseppe Motta, killed testing a plane for the 1929 races; Lieut. F.R. Buse whose plane crashed on the Potomac in 1928; Lieut. Kinkead who crashed on the Solent...
...heavier-than-air phase, too, of Britain's military aviation is suffering evil days. Last fortnight brought the death of famed speed flyer Flight Lieut. Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, 41st pilot of the Royal Air Force to die by crash since the first of the year. In London last week the Marquess of Donegall charged that Lieut. Waghorn and many another R. A. F. flyer would be alive today but for the "obsolete" type of parachute issued by the Air Ministry. This 'chute, he said, is not guaranteed to open under 800 or 1,000 ft. But Lord...
Daisy. Flight Lieut. Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, 27, was the "baby" of the British Schneider Trophy team of 1929, won the thunderous meet with a speed of 328 m.p.h. In the War he flew with the Royal Air Force, was once reprimanded for failing in a report to describe the nature of the ground where he had been forced down. Few days later he made another forced landing, rendered a florid description of the daisy field where it occurred. Henceforth his nickname was "Daisy." Last week, the day of the Kidston crash, "Daisy" Waghorn and Civilian E. R. D. Alexander...
Escape. Day after Lieut. Waghorn's crash, within a mile of the scene, two R. A. F. planes collided in midair. Both pilots jumped, were unhurt. Same day, 13,500 ft. over Banbury, two Bristol Bulldogs smacked together. Their pilots, too, jumped safely-making twelve R. A. F. pilots saved by parachute this year...
...late Sir John Alcock from Newfoundland to Ireland eight years before Lindbergh; slightly grizzled Louis Bleriot, first to fly the English Channel, now a millionaire French planemaker; Squadron Leader Augustus H. Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor of the first practical television apparatus...