Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom (1935)

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Record Details:

Title:
Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Chicago : The John C. Winston Company
Volume:
Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom
Leaf #:
00026
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 26, 2024
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20 WILL ROGERS sometime, for everywhere he went he saw something with a humorous twist in it. Even his taciturn flying companion was a fitting subject, and in one of his last pieces of writing he said of Post: "Wiley is kinder of a Calvin Coolidge on answers. None of 'em are going to bother you with being too long." After obtaining the direction to Point Barrow, Post sent the plane across the river for a take-off into the wind. Flying speed across the water! What happened? No one knows. Whatever it was, it was beyond the skill of any flier to overcome, for Wiley Post was rated as one of the greatest pilots that ever lived. An air lock in the gasoline feed line or the sudden freezing of the carburetor, due to the failure of the super-heater to act promptly, has been suggested as the cause. The engine quit and without sufficient height it was impossible to bring the ship under control. ARCTIC FLIGHT HAZARDOUS Flying in the Arctic, where such noted pilots as Carl Ben Eielson and Frank Dorbandt perished, is a terrible ordeal at all times, according to flying men who have braved its hazards many times. In the region of Point Barrow, there is ice and snow most of the year and in the few weeks of summer there is soft sand to make it difficult to take-off and land. Fog and mist arise suddenly to blind the flier and throw him off his course. And as for storms, the fliers call northern Alaska "the breeding ground of cyclones."