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	Bert Acosta
		Bert had entered the fourth grade in midterm and was assigned a seat near me, in the rear near the window.
		Bert was a mechanic for Glenn Curtiss at North Island, California.
		Bert Acosta, a leading test pilot, was to fly the ship for the first time.
	www.earlyaviators.com /eacosta.htm (1953 words)

	BERT ACOSTA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bertrand (Bert) Blanchard Acosta was born in San Diego, CA, on January 1,1895.
		Elinor Smith, the record setting Aviatrix, who knew Bert said, "Bert didn't fly an airplane, he wore it." Such was his reputation as a pilot.
		Bert's life was full and interesting, if not tragic, replete with good times and bad times.
	www.airmailpioneers.org /Pilots/Acosta.htm (514 words)

	ENB On The Side @ FCCC COP-6 pt.2: 25 July
		Acosta noted that SBSTA-15 may initiate consideration of possible modifications of the reporting guidelines to be completed by COP-8 rather than COP-7.
		Bert Metz, RIVM, states that it is technically feasible for Europe to reduce its emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
		Bert Metz, RIVM, stated that the aim of the Climate OptiOns for the Long term (COOL) project is to investigate options for a long-term climate policy strategy in the Netherlands and within European and global contexts.
	www.iisd.ca /climate/cop6bis/enbots/25july.html (2057 words)

	Acosta Family Genealogy Forum (Page 2)
		Re: Acosta ancestors 1700's Zacatecas - LETTY TREVINO 7/26/02
		Re: Narciso ACOSTA Camargo MX 1872 - Elmer 4/01/00
		Re: Narciso ACOSTA Camargo MX 1872 - Elmer 6/14/99
	genforum.genealogy.com /acosta/page2.html#279 (2183 words)

	Long Island Traditions \| Occupational Artists: Paul Kotze
		Igor Sikorsky was building his fifth plane, and Lindbergh was practicing landings and takeoffs at Roosevelt Field.
		The skywriter Bert Acosta was one of five skywriters in New York (Paul was another).
		There were no licensing exams and planes were built from scratch in a few factories.
	www.longislandtraditions.org /artistprofiles/occupatn/kotze.html (340 words)

	ACOSTA, Perry Sapiera
		ACOSTA, Perry Sapiera - Passed away just short of his 70th birthday on Jan. 25, 2005, at his home in San Francisco.
		He is the beloved brother of Angeling (Albino Feliciano), Bert (Fely), Val (Perpetua), Rose (Ber Reyes), Jose (Connie), Ben, Loreto (Mac Wong) and Trinidad.
		The sixth child of Silverio and Maria Sapiera Acosta, Perry was born in Banaoang, Calasiao, Pangasinan, Philippines.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/30/MNACOSTAPE47.DTL (500 words)

	DeWitt & Company Inc. - Toluene/Xylenes Contacts
		Her leadership provides clients with accurate and timely information of the market direction and the interpretation thereof.
		Acosta worked at Shell Chemical, in Houston, in the Olefins and Aromatics Business Center.
		While at Shell, her main responsibility was to outline strategy for the major players in olefins and aromatics in the United States.
	www.dewittworld.com /about/toluene.htm (429 words)

	Herald-Coaster
		Andrea Acosta, 11, is the winner of the Fort Bend County Extension Service's annual Family of the Year contest.
		The Acostas celebrate New Year's Eve with fireworks in the back yard, promising each other the next year will be just as filled with love and family as the year before.
		If Andrea could choose one word to describe her family, she said it would be "unique," because everybody in her family understands what it's like to laugh together as well as cry together, and that ability to love is what makes the Acostas the family of the year.
	www.herald-coaster.com /articles/2003/11/28/news/news04.txt (1146 words)

	Yankee Squadron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hilariously celebrating in the ship's bar of the Normandie with their first advance pay checks from Spain's Radical Government, six able U.S. aviators were en route last week for Madrid to join Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, in doing battle against Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White planes.
		Payment for their services: $1,500 a month plus $1,000 for each White plane brought down.
		On Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yankee_Squadron (254 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Pilot's Pilot -- Jun. 10, 1935 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Long before anyone ever heard of Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Post or Earhart, one of aviation's big names was Bert Acosta.
		His life, consequently, became a rowdy romance in which brawls, jails and domestic entanglements were due to play a large part.
		In 1927 Bertrand Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta was chief pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic...
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,883487,00.html (150 words)

	Levine Abandons Bellanca Flight
		Through no fault of his own, Clarence D. Chamberlin, who with Bert Acosta established a world's non-stop flying record a few weeks ago, will not fly the record-breaking monoplane in an attempt to establish a second New York - Paris non-stop flight.
		G.M. Bellanca, designer of the plane, and Charles S. Levine of the Columbia Aircraft Company, owner of the ship, came to the parting of the ways last night and the designer finally severed his connection with the promoter.
		Bert Acosta, who joined the crew when Floyd Bennett, Commander Byrd's flying mate on the polar trip was injured in a test flight before the ship was turned over by the designers, said it was time the people of this country began to take an active interest in aviation.
	www.charleslindbergh.com /ny/6.asp (1817 words)

	Photographs 1916-1918 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Other instructors were Bert Acosta, later pilot for Richard E. Byrd on his polar expedition, Victor Carlstrom, who was also Curtiss's chief test pilot.
		This is the fastest time yet made with a motor of 100 horsepower and establishes a new world record for such a ower plant.
		Early in 1915 Jack McCurdy was managing the Curtiss Flying School at Hanlon's Point, Toronto, Canada, with instructors Ted McCauley, Bert Acosta and Guy Gilpatric.
	glennhcurtiss.com /id41.htm (1574 words)

	Dirt Runways
		Survey crews for the new air mail routes did not fly in until August 3, 1920, more than a year after the airfield was cleared.
		In the green six passenger plane were pilot Bert Acosta, a mechanic, J.M. Larson (the craft's designer), passenger E.E. Allyne, and the great American air ace of World War I, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker.
		Nine days later the landing area was approved as a Class B airport and would be a air mail flight station.
	www.outbacknevada.us /hickson/dirt.html (1478 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1927 he and Bertrom Acosta set a world endurance record with over 51 hours in a Wright-Bellanca WB-2 monoplane called Miss Columbia.
		The purpose of this plane would be to demonstrate the abilities of the new Whirlwind engine.
		Later, Chamberlin and veteran pilot Bert Acosta took the plane aloft over Long Island and set a world endurance record of over 51 hours.
	www.nationalaviation.org /website/index.asp?webpageid={F3401AC2-408C-42A7-AD0F-CDDC7942F110}&eID=287 (611 words)

	Walter R. Bullock Homebuilt 1947
		He enrolled for flight instruction at the Curtiss Flying School at Newport News, Virginia in the fall of 1916.
		Several well-known instructors were employed there, including Victor Carlstrom, Bert Acosta, Stewart Cogswell, Victor Vernon and Walter Lees.
		Bullock flew tests for pilot license on November 21st, 1916 using a 90 H.P. OX-powered Jennie school plane, and obtained his F.A.I. aviator certificate No. 630, dated November 29th.
	home.earthlink.net /~ralphcooper/pimage66.htm (193 words)

	Curtiss School, Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station, 1916
		In December, the Curtiss Co. sent Walter to Newport News with that grand old man of the air, Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, in charge.
		The instructors at this Atlantic Coast Station in 1916 were Vic Carlstrom, Vic Vernon,, Steve MacGordon, Jimmie Johnson, Andrew "Stew" Cogswell, Bert Acosta, and Carl Batts.
		Vic Carlstrom, Vic Vernon, Jimmy Johnson, Carl Batts, Steve McGordon, Ted Hequembourg, Lawrence Leon, Bert Acosta, and Stew Cogswell
	home.earthlink.net /~ralphcooper/pimage10.htm (748 words)

	POOL - BILLIARD IN ARUBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From Curacao Tracks Predators that is the team of Karl Vervuurt and Tico de Freitas, the organizers, took the #5 spot together with Biesheuvel Friends another team from Curacao formed with The Legend Johnny Hellmund, Bad-Guy from Yerusalem Michael Arvelo, Kili Vis, Sensational Pedon and others.
		Zerothunder Allan van Aanholt surprised him 9-8 and send Baron to the losers side where The Baron knocks off Ditto Acosta for the second time this week-end with the 9-3 score.
		Aruba took seven of the twelve cash prizes, with Acosta finishing third,the best Curacao player Johnny Hellmund fourth, Blondmachine Leonardo and David Prins of Pool from Curacao tight at fifth place, The Devil Juan Ridderstap and tough kid from Curacao Jules Rijna tight at seventh.
	www.poolinaruba.com /pool_homeindex.htm (1638 words)

	The Adventure of Old Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1926, while he was still flying airmail, Lindy had dreamed of piloting a Wright-Bellanca -- a single-engine, high-wing monoplane that was generally acknowledged to be one of the best aircraft in the world -- across the Atlantic Ocean.
		Piloted by Clarence Chamberlain and Bert Acosta, the Wright-Bellanca Columbia would capture the attention of the media in the spring of 1927, achieving a world record for time aloft: 51 hours and 11 minutes.
		Lindbergh had tried to buy Columbia for his own attempt at flying the Atlantic, but Charles Levine, Bellanca's chairman of the board, refused to sell unless he could pick the crew to pilot the plane.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ahi/bl_old_glory/index1.html (969 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He then served in the Army Air Service during World War I. When the war ended, Chamberlin returned to Denison and operated a motorcycle and auto repair shop for a short time before heading for New York.
		There, in April 1927, Chamberlin set an endurance record: circling New York City for 51 hours and 11 minutes with flying buddy Bert Acosta.
		Chamberlin later added to his fame by performing the first ship-to-shore flight, when he flew a mail plane to New York City from the deck of a ship 120 miles at sea.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/chamberlin.html (238 words)

	The American Experience \| Alone on the Ice \| People & Events \| Bernt Balchen
		Byrd decided his transatlantic flight would be the first to deliver airmail.
		In June, Byrd and pilots Bert Acosta and Bernt Balchen headed across the Atlantic.
		Bad weather forced them to land in the waters off the coast on Normandy, France.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ice/peopleevents/pandeAMEX88.html (453 words)

	The Long Count - Chapter 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Earlier in the year a $25,000 prize had been put up by Raymond Orteig, the owner of New York's Hotel Brevoort, for the first man or crew to fly non-stop to Paris.
		A handful of famous aviators, including Commander Richard E. Byrd, Clarence Chamberlin, Bert Acosta and two French war aces, Nungesser and Coli, had been considered favorites in the race.
		But Lindbergh had filed his notice of entry as far back as March 1.
	www.genetunney.com /long10.html (3011 words)

	Famous Bellanca Airplanes - The Long Island Early Fliers Club
		Early in 1927, Bellanca and the Wright Company parted.
		The WB-2 now known as "Columbia" was flown by Chamberlin and Bert Acosta to a new endurance record of over 51 hours at Roosevelt Field.
		This was a test for the planned flight to Paris.
	longislandearlyfliers.org /news_archive/04aug_bellanca.html (426 words)

	The Genius of George Kenney--April 2002
		While taking flying training under Bert Acosta, a crack flier, Kenney showed the flair and confidence that subsequently distinguished his career.
		He recalled that Acosta asked, "What is the idea, coming in there dead-stick?" Kenney replied, "Any damned fool can land it if the motor is running" and added, "I just wanted to see what would happen in case the motor quit."
		During World War I, Kenney flew 75 missions, downed two German aircraft, was shot down himself, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star.
	www.afa.org /magazine/April2002/0402kenney.html (3451 words)

	Online Trombone Journal: 'Bone Events
		Panelists: Buddy Childers, Pete Rugolo, Dick Hafer, Eddie Bert
		Trombones: Alex Isles, Charlie Loper, Eddie Bert, Nick Lane, Bill Reichenbach
		Trumpets: Eric Miyashiro, Adolfo Acosta, Mike Bogart, Scott Englebright, Ernie Garside
	www.trombone.org /events/viewevents.asp?EventID=583 (781 words)

	Lindbergh's Atlantic Conquest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pride of Detroit --Brock and Schlee, attempted to fly around the world.
		George O. Noville, Bert Acosta, Bernt Balchen--New York to France.
		American Girl --Ruth Elder and George Haldeman, New York to Paris, rescued at sea, near the Azores.
	www.worldbook.com /wc/features/aviators/html/av7.htm (3065 words)

	Technical Writer for IS14000 Certification Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Unless authorized by GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics, work shall not be scheduled to include overtime or holiday hours.
		PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics - 1148 Bert Acosta, El Cajon, CA 92020
		SCOPE OF WORK: The job will be to support the GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics facilities in the development of documentation required for environmental ISO14000 certification.
	www.foundation.sdsu.edu /nsscm/GNK-Techwriter.html (243 words)

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