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Near Sunbury, Pa. one night three other Army flyers in a disabled bomber dropped flares and went over the side, floating safely earthward as they watched the ship crash and burn. At Cheyenne, Wyo. an Air Corps Reserve pilot who might have bailed out when his motor died chose instead to risk a dead-stick landing, climbed unhurt from his wrecked ship...
...twin-engined bomber with a crew of three and the southbound mail, landed at Daytona Beach, Fla. It was five hours late, and fuel in the right wing tank was running low. When it took off again Private Ernest Bair Sell was in the middle cockpit, pumping fuel by hand. At 500 ft. both engines quit. The plane plumped into a cypress swamp. Private Sell's head was mortally smashed...
...mail test flights, two Army planes had forced landings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Three days later a reserve officer called to postal duty was ferrying a Douglas bomber to the Army's western airmail base. He got lost in the Idaho badlands, crashed and burned to death near Jerome. Same day two more reserve pilots were delivering a plane to the western base when they ran into a blizzard near Salt Lake City. Ice coated the ship, bore it down out of control. So inaccessible was the spot in which they died that the pilots' bodies...
More famed Martin, Glenn L. of Baltimore, was another Navy witness. Manufacturer of the celebrated Martin bomber, which goes 200 m. p. h. and won the Collier Trophy last year, Mr. Martin testified that he had been awarded Navy contracts for 14 years, had done $20,000,000 worth of business with the Government. His average profit was 6%, although in 1927 he had made 19% on a $3,000,000 order. A string of manufacturers followed Mr. Martin to the stand and stated the case that every aviation manufacturer and Army and Navy procurement officer knows. Experimental costs...
...organized the Air Line Pilots Association is a big, fiery six-footer named David Louis Behncke. He was born on a Wisconsin farm. During the War he was a crack bomber and machine gunner. Today he holds every possible military and civilian pilot's license, has some 8,324 hr. on his log with never a serious crackup. For five years he flew the mail west out of Chicago for United Air Lines. Two years ago Pilot Behncke whipped the pilots' union together from the ranks of the ineffectual National...