Word: flyering
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...aviation casualties. Because the danger of flight is not willingly publicized by aviation companies, few laymen can get exact information about the risks involved. Last week the risks were discussed in an article entitled "Flying Is Still Dangerous" in The American Mercury by Kenneth Brown Collings, Wartime Navy flyer, onetime mail pilot, flight instructor and airport manager, author of Flight Hazard. Some of Author Collings' statements: Average age of airline pilots is 32. Average men of 32 engaged in normal ground occupations die at the rate of less than 3 per 1,000 per year. Airline pilots...
...Street. Without stopping she had traveled 1,015 mi. in 13 hr. 5 min. at an average of 77.6 m. p. h., on $16 worth of crude oil.* If Messrs. Budd had planned on getting to the Fair that day from Denver on one of Burlington's regular flyers, they would have had to entrain on the Aristocrat the afternoon before. Half an hour later, after appearing briefly on the stage of the Fair pageant Wings of a Century, history-making Zephyr shuttled over to the Fair's Travel & Transport Building for a summer's exhibition before...
Admiral Reeves's wife has for years been invalided by asthma, is now living in Switzerland for her health. One son, Joseph Jr., is a capable California artist. The other, William Cunningham, was graduated from West Point last year, is an Army flyer...
...fighting arm by ambitious, energetic David Sinton Ingalls, just as military aviation was being spotlighted by F. Trubee Davison. President Roosevelt abolished these young zealots' jobs as assistant secretaries for air in the two departments. Today a Navy airman is first of all a sailor, though the Army flyer still thinks of himself as a different breed from other soldiers. But naval aviators did not disguise their delight when word went round that "Reeves is coming in." If there is any petting done, the air force will get petted while Admiral Reeves is in command...
...from Paris to fly non-stop to California (6,200 mi.) and thus beat their own world's distance record set last year (New York-Syria, 5,657 mi.). Their plane, built five years ago by old Louis Bleriot, was named Joseph LeBrix after the famed French flyer who crashed to death in Russia three years ago. To spur them on the French Government offered a prize of one million francs ($66,000). Prevailing tailwinds sped them safely over the North Atlantic. Above Newfoundland they ran into fog and motor trouble. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field...