Word: porterfield
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...took him away in an automobile, deserted him on a lonely highroad. The puppy made his way back. Finding that the beast survived even his own natural inclination to sniff at whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed to pulp, buried itself a foot deep in the earth. . . . "Just a little prank," said Pilot Robey, grinning uneasily. E. E. Porterfield Jr. (head of the Porterfield Flying School) heard...