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...return to America, merely the co-pilot of an inexperienced youngster named Herndon. . . . It was clearly understood [at the start] that Pangborn was to be the pilot and that Herndon was to be a sort of glorified passenger and relief pilot if the occasion warranted. ... As a professional flyer I have no more sympathy with a Herndon who will deliberately convert a scientific undertaking into a personal publicity stunt, than I have with a Hutchinson [George R. Hutchinson, father of the 'Flying Family' which cracked up off Greenland] who undertakes a personal stunt under the guise of science...
...crushed his skull with a sash weight (TIME. April 4, 1927, et seq.}. Driving from the crime she tried to enhearten Judd Gray with a slug of whiskey. "That whiskey." said Dr. Gettler, "was loaded with bichloride of mercury. Sweet woman." Both murderers have been electrocuted. Wilmer Stultz, flyer who carried Amelia Earhart on her first trip across the Atlantic, was drunk, his brain subsequently proved to Toxicologist Gettler, when he killed himself and two passengers in a Long Island crash. Eben McBurney Byers. the Pittsburgh industrialist who died after prolonged drinking of radium water (TIME. April...
...flyer could President Roosevelt last week find on the list of fleet officers from which the Navy's General Board had asked him to choose a successor to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett as Chief of its Bureau of Aeronautics. He delighted Navy airmen by brushing the list aside, naming a man who has more than 400 hours at airplane controls to his credit. Tall, spare, keen-jawed Captain Ernest J. King, 54. father of six daughters and a son, qualified as a Naval Aviator (pilot) in 1927, has since successively commanded the Scouting Fleet...
Most precious description was Flyer Orie William ("Bill") Coyle's. He had "a ringside seat 9,500 ft. above the earth" in a Transcontinental & Western Air mail plane traveling East. Flyer Coyle, 37, quiet, learned accurate observation under stress during War bombardments. His report of what he saw was quickly reported by the Associated Press when he landed at Kansas City: "It was the most spectacular sight I ever have witnessed. The meteor appeared out of the northeast, traveling west by southwest. It was 5:15 a. m. Mountain Time, and I was over Adrian, Tex., 45 miles west...
...hour and 25 minutes behind schedule. Pilot Noel B. Evans, Wartime flyer, of Yarney Speed Lines was bumping his way through a rain squall southeast of San Francisco one night last week. Behind him, in the Lockheed's darkened cabin, sat two nervous passengers taken aboard that afternoon in Los Angeles: a Mr. Herman Brown and a Mrs. Lavelle Lodwick of Hollywood. Driving rain beaded the cabin windows opaquely as the pilot nosed down over suburbs south of Oakland. He was presumably looking for an emergency landing field on which to bring his passengers to safety. Instead, he brought...