Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blind flying, where nothing of the ground or horizon can be seen, is the terror of aviation. At the speed of plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes...
...speed of but 90 m. p. h., can land on much smaller fields than the Royal Air Force still planes used by heretofore Flying P.' used ie by H. R. Minister H. James and Ramsay MacDonald. On his first flight in the Moth last week, dutiful Scion Wales was piloted to Sandringham to visit his parents, was deposited smartly on their lawn. Later, by handling one of the ship's dual controls, he will learn to fly it himself, will qualify for a regular pilot's license...
...Florida and the Antilles. They were to return to the U. S. by way of northern South America and Central America. Mrs. Lindbergh asked fellow passengers to call her Anne. She calls her husband Augustus. Col. Lindbergh reported progress frequently by radio, beginning his messages "Lindbergh, pilot...
...flying clubs far outruns that of the pedestrian students; and naturally enough, for the members spend so much of their time at the airports that they soon leave their studies far in arrears. It is a far more challenging thing to a boy of this temperament to obtain his pilot's license than to labor all year for three dull C's and a D in his college courses. That being the case, would he not, more logically, be a student at an aviation school that at Harvard or Yale? In the end, he might decide that a college diploma...
...Airmail. At Duisburg, Germany, one Hermann Pattberg, rich manufacturer, received a package containing a carrier pigeon and a note ordering him to tie a 5,000-mark ($1,191) bank note to the pigeon and release it. Otherwise he would be killed. Shrewd Herr Pattberg hired a plane and pilot which followed the pigeon and photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched...