Word: warbirds
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...rules of fate and chance, that scarred and willful old warbird, Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, should have been back home in Columbus, Ohio last week with a cane, a bad temper, a book of yellowed clippings and a half interest in a suburban gas station. Instead, after 38 years of derring-do, he was one of America's most famous and successful men-not only a kind of Buffalo Bill of the gasoline age, but an intimate of rulers, and a self-made captain of industry as well...
...days he was the flotilla's Captain Bligh. The pilot, 27-year-old Captain William Cherry, was in command, and Rick-enbacker's friend, Colonel Hans Christian Adamson, 52, was the ranking officer. But the old warbird-dressed in a grey felt hat, business suit, shirt, tie and high-laced shoes-gave orders...
...Oregon is lucky, nevertheless. She lived and fought in the days when battleships were the proudest war machines of all-not just lumbering sea monsters born to shy and run when a tiny, saucy, death-dealing warbird comes screaming overhead...
Frank Wead, a navy filer and warbird was grounded several years ago and since then he has turned his talents to dramatic exposition of his inside knowledge of the air. His play, "Ceiling Zero" (if Noel gaiety hasn't too completely dulled our memory) was performed with considerable success last season in New York by the estimable Mr. Osgood Perkins, Mary Young's company of Copley Theatre players have brought the work to Boston where it has been running since Christmas...
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