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...plane had crashed while going down through the overcast. But why? Pilot error? Instrument failure? CAB inspectors set out for the answer. President Truman appointed a five-member board to study all the recent air accidents. In three weeks, 146 people had died in the flaming wreckage of DC-4s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Flight 410 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...over its financial troubles, last week had to swallow more bad news. The three-man arbitration board set up to end the T.W.A. strike (TIME, Nov. 4) unanimously awarded basic increases of from $26 to $122 a month for pilots and copilots of T.W.A.'s four-motored DC-4s and Constellations. The boosts were retroactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Outlook: Drab | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...T.W.A. pilot for nine years, Thornburg entered the Navy in 1940, was an operations officer for the Naval Air Transport Service for the Caribbean and South America. When he got out of the Navy in 1946, he joined Waterman Airlines. With six planes - two DC-4s and four DC-3s - he has operated a nonscheduled service to Puerto Rico, Central America, England, Germany and South Africa, an intrastate line between six Alabama cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Through the Back Door | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Series to Date Year Harvard Yale Year Harvard Yale 1875-76 4g-4t 0 1910 0 0 1876-77 3t 1g 1911 0 0 (Yale won) 1912 20 0 1878 0 1g 1913 15 5 1879 0 0 1914 36 0 1880 0 1g,1t 1915 41 0 1881 4s 0 1916 3 6 (Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . And Hardly a Man is Still Alive Who Saw Harvard-Yale Start in '75 | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, was routine. As the Pan American Airways Clipper (bound for Lisbon from New York) taxied towards the airport terminal, the pilot snapped an order: "Flaps up." The copilot, who had flown many hours in DC-4s, instinctively reached down with his left hand, yanked the lever next to his seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Right Pew, Wrong Church | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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