Word: flyering
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Wolfgang von Gronau, 39, is much less a "flyer," in the romantic sense of the word, than an aerial mariner, stolid, painstaking, plodding. He did not want to become a pilot. His lack of interest in aviation became definite fear when his brother, a War aviator, was shot down and killed. But shortly after that when he was transferred from the navy to the air service, he had to go. At first he tried to deceive his mother by telling her he was to go aboard a Zeppelin, which was supposed to be safer than an airplane. But when...
Near Shenandoah, Iowa, Raymond Funk, flyer, survivor of five airplane crashes, was hit on the chin by the board seat of a child's swing. The rope encircled his neck, choked him to death...
Engaged. Loretta Turnbull, 19, outboard motor boat racer of Los Angeles; and Richard Blythe, amateur flyer, personal representative of Colonel Lindbergh at the time of his European flight...
...shock-cord crew of ten men stood ready in front of a black-&-white Hailer-Hawk sailplane named Unguentine. In the cockpit sat Warren Edward Eaton, one-time War flyer, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), president of the Soaring Society of America, Inc. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison made a little speech, fired a little pistol. "Walk!" shouted Pilot Eaton to the shock-cord crew. After they had begun to walk, stretching the elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then...
Died. John Hunter, 26, one of the four brothers who set a world's airplane refueling endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec. in 1930; by decapitation; in Rosedale, Miss. Attempting to untie his amphibian plane from a dock, Flyer Hunter was struck by the propeller...