Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool oldtimers. During the War he piloted the rattling biplanes of the British Royal Air Force as an instructor, afterwards fought in Russia for the White Army. He was one of the handful of commercial pilots with "1,000,000-mile" flying records. In May 1935, he flew influenza serum from Newark to the Eskimos of upper Alaska. Aboard was another air veteran-Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Test Pilot E. H. Veblen, who had ferried a DC-3 east for delivery to the Soviet's Amtorg Trading Corp. and was returning to Los Angeles. Another passenger...
...beginning of a new offensive toward another junction city, Chengchow, west of Suchow where the Lunghai and the Peking-Hankow Railways meet. The Japanese were obviously beginning a great new encircling movement under the direction of the North China Commander-in-Chief General Count Juichi Terauchi, who flew down from his northern base to see Suchow fall...
...Northwest Airlines at Las Vegas, Nev.- that Northwest might avoid paying California's 3% sales tax. The nine who died were not paying passengers but two Lockheed employes, two Northwest officials and one employe, two wives, two children. Principal post-mortem question mark was why Pilot Willey flew so low. Best guess: For some reason he decided to short-cut straight across the mountains and "fly contact''-in sight of ground-from Burbank to Daggett (in the Mojave Desert), instead of skirting the hills and staying on the airlines' beam. One bit of ground Pilot Willey...
...week is really the fourth DC-4. First was a "mock-up"-a full-sized wooden replica, exact in every detail, for a study of space requirements, load placement, general structure. DC-4 No. 2 was a perfect scale model, with 8 ft. 3 in. wingspan. This Lilliputian transport "flew" through 1,100 hours and $25,000 worth of wind tunnel tests at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech. Third stage was a Spanish Inquisition by Douglas engineers, who systematically squeezed, banged, shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every material. They built huge testing machines many times as valuable...
...reliable, he was once an army flying instructor. When he was testing the DCi, the port engine almost died when the plane was only 50 ft. up. He calmly wheeled for a landing, missing a tree by feet. As the engine picked up he decided not to land, flew on for a successful test with the engine sputtering...