TIME

March 25, 1935 12:00 AM GMT-5

Four years ago, after he broke the England-Australia record in a tiny Gypsy-Moth, Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott declared wearily: “I wouldn’t make the attempt again for a million pounds.” But the long, tough course had not really beaten the onetime light-heavyweight boxing champion of the British Royal Air Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after a crash. Last autumn tall, rangy Lieut. Scott came to world fame when he flew to Australia once more, won the MacRobertson Trophy Race and £20,000. Last week in Paris he was given what everybody expected: the Harmon Trophy as No. 1 airman of 1934.

Wholly unexpected was the choice of the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs for No. 1 U. S. pilot of the year: American Airlines’ Chief Pilot Dean Cullen Smith. Famed among fellow-pilots but virtually unknown to the public, tall, black-mustached Dean Smith last made front-page news when, in December, he spotted from the air an American Airlines passenger plane which had been lost for more than 48 hours in the blizzard-swept Adirondacks. Oldtime airmail pilot, member of Admiral Byrd’s first expedition to Antarctica, Dean Smith has never been a headline flyer, lives quietly with his wife and daughter in East Orange, N. J., flies a Condor sleeper plane between Newark and Buffalo.

To Dean Smith will go the King Albert Memorial Medal designed by dark, handsome “Princess” Roussadara Mdivani, wife of Painter José Maria Sert.

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