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...going to keep on being tough about it. To Ernest E. Basham Sr., 56-year-old chief test pilot for Consolidated Aircraft at Fort Worth, the board handed out a stiff penalty: total revocation of his airline-transport-pilot certificate. That means he may not fly, and CAB sources said grimly that he would probably stay grounded for two years. Pilot Basham had been found guilty of twice flying B-24 Liberator bombers less than 500 feet from American Airlines transports...
Next, Jesse A. Blevans, North American Aviation test pilot, drew a six-month suspension from CAB for flying a B-25 Mitchell bomber within 150 feet of a TWA plane near Adrian, Tex. Blevans, who had no previous incidents charged against him, admitted his error .in cutting in front of the transport, which was rolled over at a 45° angle by his propwash...
...Tough as CAB proposes to be with civilian offenders, it lacks power to deal with the parallel problem of skylarking Army pilots. CAB Chairman Lloyd Welch Pogue has complained to General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold about wild Army flying on the airways, but that is all; the Air Forces alone can discipline Air Forces pilots...
...working in an Alabama field. Both youngsters were cashiered, sent to prison. But the worst "fooling" accident yet was at Palm Springs, Calif., last October, when nine passengers and the crew of three died in the crash of an American airliner clipped in flight by an Army Lockheed B34. CAB investigated the crash, reported that the "probable" cause was the "reckless and irresponsible conduct of Lieut. William N. Wilson in deliberately maneuvering a bomber in dangerous proximity to the airliner in an unjustifiable attempt to attract the attention of the first officer [copilot] of the latter plane." The Army promptly...
This was no help for air safety. Since then CAB has received scores of complaints, most of them unofficial, since commercial pilots are generally reluctant to make charges against their Army colleagues. But the stories got around...