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...chronicle of the Caterpillar Club appears this week in a new book Jump! by Don Glassman,graduate of the University of Missouri, journalist. A "Caterpillar" is a flyer who has dropped over the side of a disabled or lost plane-like a butterfly wriggling out of its cocoon-and swung down through space to safety with parachute mushrooming over his head...
Last week the flyer thus described in his official citation for the Victoria Cross- Lieut.-Col. William George Barker, second-ranking Canadian Air Force ace-ascended again, at Rockcliffe Airdrome, Ottawa. Instead of enemies aloft he had an empty sky. Below were Government officials come to watch him put a new Fairchild biplane (he was Fairchild's Canadian chief) through test antics. Flying fast but low, he put his ship into a loop, over-taxed its ability at the top, could not get out of the spin that followed. So ended Col. William G. Barker, V. C., after having...
...tested (TIME, Aug. 19). Meantime, to continue nervy Lieut. Williams in his country's best uses, the Navy Department last week ordered him to sea with the aircraft carrier Lexington, his first "active" duty in seven years. Promptly, Speedster Williams countered. As the Army's fastest flyer, Lieut. James Doolittle, had done a month prior, Williams resigned from his country's service, "that I shall be free to devote my full time and energy, without constraint," to outflying the world...
Discoveries. Wilkins discovered that Graham land was an icebound group of islands, now provisionally called the Antarctic Archipelago. He named new places after friends and backers?explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Flyer Carl Ben Eielson. Publisher William Randolph Hearst, and Geographers Finley and Bowman; also Lockheed (Aircraft), Mobiloil (Vacuum-Oil Co.), (Wright) Whirlwind...
...aviation for Shell Petroleum Corp. On leave of absence from the Army, Doolittle lately completed a 7,200-mi. roundtrip flight for the city of New York, making a research tour of airports throughout the land. His entry into commercial flying is not abrupt. For ten years has Flyer Doolittle been a 1st Lieutenant, total pay-$4,800 per year. Service with Shell Petroleum will more than triple that income...