One by one the 18 newsmen and other guests in a Curtiss Condor which flew over Newark Airport one afternoon last week, walked forward to the control compartment to see what was going on. Ordinarily they would have seen a somewhat annoyed pilot working the controls to compensate for the shift of weight caused by their movements. Instead they saw Pilot Ralph G. Lockwood comfortably sitting with legs crossed, hands clasped behind his head. The control stick in front of him moved slightly fore & aft, side-to-side; the rudder pedals budged now...
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