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Principal photography for Death in the Air under the working title of Pilot X began on June 25, 1936. A series of name changes ensued, and an affidavit was filed on March 10, 1938 with New York State censors to change the title to Pilot X. On May 13, 1943, the production was retitled and reissued as Mysterious Bombardier. [1]
Author, The United States in the Air (1928) Public Utilities Commissioner , District of Columbia Mason Mathews Patrick (December 13, 1863 – January 29, 1942) was a general officer in the United States Army who led the United States Army Air Service during and after World War I and became the first Chief of the Army Air Corps when it was ...
Nobile and the Italia at Stolp, Pomerania, in April 1928, before embarking on the polar flights. At 01:15 on 15 April 1928, Italia took off from the base at Milano and headed for the Arctic. With 20 personnel on board, and a payload of 17,000 pounds (7,700 kg) of fuel and supplies, the initial journey to Stolp in Germany took 30 hours through a ...
Alfred Léonard Loewenstein CB (11 March 1877 – 4 July 1928) [1] was a Belgian financier.At his peak in the 1920s, Loewenstein was worth around £12 million in the currency of the time (equivalent to £913.25 million in 2023), making him the third-richest person in the world at the time.
His death was the third air fatality for Barksdale Field. He was interred with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. "He had expected to go to Shreveport, La., today (23 February) to complete organization of the air mail field there." [196] 22 February "Caught in weather thick with rain and fog, Liet.
Carl Ben Eielson Carl Ben Eielson and George Hubert Wilkins visit Paul von Hindenburg in 1928 The tombstone of Eielson located in Hatton, North Dakota. Carl Benjamin "Ben" Eielson (July 20, 1897 – November 9, 1929) was an American aviator, bush pilot and explorer.
Kingsford Smith and his second wife Mary in Wellington, New Zealand. Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 at Riverview Terrace, Hamilton in Brisbane, Colony of Queensland, the son of William Charles Smith and his wife Catherine Mary (née Kingsford, daughter of Richard Ash Kingsford, a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and mayor in both Brisbane and Cairns ...
Death in the Air (hardcover), New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 10 March 1935, 304 pp. Death in the Clouds (hardcover), London: Collins Crime Club, July 1935, 256 pp. Death in the Air (paperback), Avon, New York: Avon Books, 1946, 259 pp. Death in the Clouds (paperback), Fontana Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, 1957, 188 pp.