Word: cockpit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argument. The Lieutenant wanted to fly the plane alone. Mr. Guggenheim, a flyer himself, insisted that Lieutenant Benjamin Kelsey, who had assisted in the research, occupy the front seat, to take control in case accident happened. Piqued, daring (TIME, Sept. 30) Lieutenant Doolittle consented. He crawled into the rear cockpit, hauled an opaque cloth entirely over himself and instruments, which were illuminated, gave the plane the gun. Off were the two men. Lieutenant Kelsey with his arms resting on the gunwales, Lieutenant Doolittle completely shrouded. Fourteen miles in all he flew, seeing nothing but his instruments. Certainly, assuredly, he made...
Last week the identical little cream-colored biplane with a Wasp engine in its nose taxied out upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that...
...Irish as boiled potatoes. Contrary to all romantic tradition Philip ("Red") Mohan comes not from the Lower East but the Upper West Side. Since "Red" Mohan flew a rattling "Jenny" plane from Juarez, a fortnight ago, to the rebel forces in Chihuahua with 400 Ibs. of nitroglycerine in the cockpit, a cigaret between his lips, and a pint of tequila (cactus wine) on his hip, he has been a hero to the rebels. Black-eyed wenches smile at him in the plaza of an evening, but Amorous "Red" Mohan is a very Tristram for constancy...
...manufactories. Planes ranged from the tricky little Heath at $975, which only the best of pilots dare handle, to the $67,500 Fokker, for which, with its ornate fittings* Cadillac's President Lawrence P. Fisher just paid $75,000. In between were sturdy one and two-seater open cockpit monoplanes and biplanes. Most models, however, were "closed jobs," built as coupes, sedans, coaches, cabins, buses. All but four planes were single-motored, with Pratt & Whitneys, Wrights, Warners, leBlonds, for the most part.† Exceptions were the trimotored Fords, Fokkers, Boeings and Kreutzers (a new Los Angeles product...
...titles borrowed from history and from the novel by E. Barrington. Victor Varconi as a handsome Nelson, H. B. Warner as a subtle cuckold, act well in episodes of which the theatricality seems no more than appropriate treatment of an age and a hero also theatrical. Best shot: the cockpit of the thundering Victory...