Identifier: NewEnglandaviatVol2Tick (find matches)
Title: New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed
Subjects: Biography Aeronautics World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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g-off, leaving the water for the air, was far different than Iexpected. Just a deliciously free sensation, accompanied by great speed,excessive wind pressure, the roar of the exhaust, and the slight tilting andbucking of the plane as she first takes the air. You climb steadily andgradually higher and higher, taking care all the time to keep on the course.Soon the harbor unfolds beneath you. We are now approaching the fortand soon pass directly over it and on and out over the ships. Our air speedhas varied from 85 to 95 miles an hour, but our tachometer and ther-mometer indicate a healthy engine condition. We now bank and turn sharply to the right; the floor of the ocean isplainly seen and several sharks and porpoises are easily seen. We dartthrough a low-hanging cloud and glimpse on the far horizon several whitesails. Directly before us stretch the Keys for miles and miles, and in thewest a large red sun is sinking. The cloud effects are wonderful, and we do some tall thinking.( 316 )
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PHILIP DUDLEY MOSSER Ensign, U.S.N.R.F. Enlisted in April, 1917, at which time he was a senior at CornellUniversity. He entered the coast patrol, and served on a patrolboat in Long Island Sound. In Oct., 1917, he transferred to theNaval Aviation Service, and was sent to the M.I.T. Naval Avi-ation Ground School. Upon completion of the course there, he wastransferred to the Naval Air Station, at Bay Shore, N.Y. He wascommissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F. On May 4, 1918, he fell in hishydroplane, and his skull was fractured. He recovered from thisaccident, although the injury to one eye prevented him fromfurther flying. He was subsequently appointed a ground officer,and stationed at Pensacola, Fla. (Portrait on opposite page.) CHARLES B. MILLER Second Lieutenant, A.S., U.S.A. Son of Nathan and Emma F. Miller; was born at Fall River, Mass.,May 14, 1889. He was educated at the Durfee High School and atPhillips Exeter Academy. He enlisted in the Air Service at Boston,Mass., on Jan. 16, 1918, and

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