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...world found out last week who led the daring, destructive noonday air raid on Japan last month. To the White House, to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor, went pugnacious Brigadier General James Harold Doolittle, 45, speed flyer, engineer, scholar and man of action...
Quiet Birdman. Stocky, nerveless Jimmy Doolittle set at least a dozen speed records, owns almost all the important aviation trophies. But he is far more than a speed and a stunt flyer. Doolittle has been a ceaseless air experimenter: in 1929 he made the first complete blind flight. A second lieutenant in World War I, he chafed at being kept at San Diego as an instructor. He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost, extinct flightless bird, and from the "modock," legendary aviation term...
...Aviation in war should no longer be an adjunct of the Army and Navy, but should be an independent arm used as the major factor in our striking force," Alexander de Seversky, noted flyer, plane designer, and aerial strategist told the newsmen's Institute on War Problems last night at the Faculty Club...
...Detroit an ex-schoolmarm holds valve tappets for Wright engines to the light, and feels each one with her fingers. There must be no tiny scratch or rough spot-to wreck a plane, cost a life. In Ford's great bomber hatchery at Willow Run a woman flyer (Mary Elizabeth Von Mach) inspects motors for the big B-24s. In San Diego a young war widow strings numbered wires of an electrical subassembly, attaching the end of each to its proper terminal. In Dallas a bridge champion's wife assembles hydraulic devices which raise & lower landing gear...
...deserved it. Aeronautical engineer, speed flyer, nerveless experimenter in anything aeronautical, Doolittle had contributed as much as any, more than most, to the advancement of commercial and military flying. As a professional soldier he was the first to take off, fly and land by instruments. He set distance records, tested wings, engines, anything. He once flew across the Andes, his legs in plaster casts, to demonstrate a U.S. plane...