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...flyer is good for only four hours [at a stretch]. The process of developing a first-class pilot is three years. The pilot must know meteorology, radio, aerial machine guns, bombs, battle formation. America today needs 100,000 pilots.* Five years hence, our need will be for 500,000 pilots. We need 30,000 planes before this year is out, 5,000 to be utilized in the schools of instruction in every section of the country. Five years hence, our equipment need will be for 100,000 planes...
...fitness, depth of purse. If he wants his training for nothing, the Air Corps will take any healthy, well-schooled male between the ages of 20 and 26, feed, clothe, shelter and train him for a year, pay him $75 a month, almost guarantee a defense force or airline flyer's job at the end of the course. Last week two other ways were introduced. Tennessee began sending out application blanks for five State schools, accommodating 500 ground pupils each, to be established at major airports. Tuition will be free to physically fit boys & girls over...
...city with their heaviest artillery, sent a bombing fleet over it. Thereupon the Leftists took to the air, staged one of the most exciting airplane battles in months. Sent down in flames by a Leftist machine gunner, General Franco's officers admitted, was the Rightists' ace flyer, Carlos de Haya. While Rightists claimed the capture or destruction of thousands of Leftist soldiers and began to hail the battle as the turning point of the war, a series of explosions suddenly shook the city's outskirts. Leftists, answering the Rightists' bombardment from above, were blowing up Rightists...
...Spokane, Wash, flyer named Nick Mamer won a New York-Spokane air race. Two years later Nick Mamer made the first round-trip flight between St. Paul and Seattle, presently started an airline between Spokane and St. Paul. Though part of this route spans some of the most tortured country in the U. S. and there were no radio beacons or even lights in those days, Nick Mamer's success convinced the U. S. Post Office that the run was feasible. Northwest Airlines, which had begun flying between Chicago and St. Paul in 1926, thereupon absorbed both Nick Mamer...
...does not take office until February, and Joseph St. George Bryan III, a parsimonious Virginian who edits the "Post Scripts" page and contributed one of the smartest Post biographies of the year, 0. 0. Mclntyre's. Another Junior member of the staff is Richard Thruelsen, a onetime Army flyer, who writes ''Keeping Posted...