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German retaliation raids must be expected to increase, Churchill said. There is also no doubt that the Germans are trying to prepare a large-scale attack against England with rockets, pilotless aircraft or both...
Windfall. In Somers, N.Y., when a pilotless fighter plane crashed near the home of William H. Lasdon, chairman of the local war-bond drive, he and his committee promptly got to work on the gathering crowd, within an hour had $48,000 in pledges...
...lucky for Keene that he did take his time. The pilotless Catalina began to drone over land. Keene did not know what land, but he did not care. He buckled on his parachute and bailed out over British New Guinea. Bush natives showed him the way to Port Moresby. The last he saw of the Catalina and her oblivious crew, she was flying steadily...
...late Italian Poet-Flyer Gabriele D'Annunzio, stalled the engine in his airplane. He hopped out, spun the propeller. As the motor caught and the plane began to move, Aviator D'Annunzio ducked the wing., missed the cabin, was knocked flat by the tail. The pilotless plane wheeled dizzily round the field, crashed through a fence, pinned a woman bystander against her automobile. The woman was hospitalized. Charged with third-degree assault, Flyer D'Annunzio was arrested, held in $500 bail...
...ropostale. In 1928 a plane of money-losing Compagnie Générale Aéropostale carrying a passenger from Morocco to Toulouse, flew into a severe storm over Spain. The pilot was pitched out of his cockpit and fell to death. The pilotless plane crashed, killing the passenger. Heirs sued for $20,000. Aéropostale argued that every precaution had been taken by government officials who inspected the planes and gave clearance for each departure. The storm, said the company, was clearly an Act of God. Last fortnight, the court ruled in favor of Aéropostale. Insisting that the company must...