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...flyer who thus narrowly avoided death was Squadron Leader F. D. R. ("Ferdie") Swain, 33-year-old Royal Air Force test pilot. A voluble, keen-faced bachelor, he entered the R. A. F. in 1922, served in Ismailia, Heliopolis, commanded a test flight in Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying...
Explaining that he had dumped 500 gallons of gasoline during the flight, Flyer Richman snapped: "Five hundred miles off Newfoundland we met a gale head wind which nearly forced the plane into the sea. I believe we would have crashed and drowned had the gas not been dumped...
...Sneered Flyer Merrill: "I admit that the situation . . . was such as to scare an inexperienced flyer. . . . Safety required lower altitude, at which I immediately aimed. To my consternation Richman emptied a tank against my protest and wanted to send...
...awful!" exploded Flyer Merrill to a reporter who found him not speaking to Flyer Richman as they labored to pull their monoplane out of a Newfoundland bog. "We had enough gas to get to Atlanta. Why did we land here in the marsh? Ask Mr. Richman! He's the master mind here...
Presently Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker, who played godfather to the whole stunt, arrived with a rescue party, persuaded the two to stop bickering, fly on together. Flyer Merrill at once telegraphed New York: "There is positively no truth in the rumor that Harry and I have any differences. We are closer friends than any two men living...