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...surprise was burly, Carolina-mountain-born Colonel Caleb V. Haynes, boss of the bomber command. Colonel Haynes is 47, and a famous flyer...
Died. Captain H. Clyde Balsley, 48, early member of the Lafayette Escadrille and first U.S. flyer to be shot down in World War I; of complications from wounds received in 1916; in Los Angeles...
...Army Air Forces revealed the name of their European theater commander. He is wiry, weatherbeaten Major General Carl Spaatz (TIME, Feb. 9), a military flyer since the year after he was graduated from West Point (1914). "Tooey"* Spaatz (rhymes with Swatz) won the D.S.C. for knocking down three German planes in World War I, the D.F.C. for commanding the Question Mark in the Army's famed refueling flight (6 days...
Destiny with Pliers. A promising career as a trainer of race horses was interrupted when one day, in the person of Pilot Tom Black, famed African longdistance flyer, she met "Destiny with pliers in his hand." Tom Black taught Beryl to fly. She became a free-lance pilot, adept in all the lordly and dangerous aerial perspectives of an abstruse continent, which she often superbly implies but seldom traps in words. She was, so far as she knows, the first woman to fly the mails in Africa. She was certainly the first human being to scout for elephants...
Before she took off, Atlantic Flyer Jim Mollison lent her his wrist watch, saying, "For God's sake, don't get it wet. Salt water would ruin the works." Author Markham kept the watch dry, but she cracked up in a Cape Breton bog. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic, eastwest. But even Author Markham could not fly the Atlantic every...