Word: aero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week eased down onto a yellow marker on the White House lawn. Correspondents duly noted the executive mansion's, first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington's heavy ground traffic, especially to and from the National Airport. The search...
Guided by Colonel John P. Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), boss of the Air Force's Aero Medical Laboratories, eager Jet Pilot Kittinger, 28, climbed into an instrument-cramped, air-conditioned gondola, was borne upward by a huge helium-filled plastic balloon as ground crews tracked his progress. Kittinger took only 80 minutes to reach the 18-mile mark, spent two hours at peak height before failure of his voice transmitter promoted safety-conscious Supervisor Stapp to order him to earth...
...Gettysburg, it turned out, Adenauer did learn something about farming. After lunch (creamed chicken), Ike guided his guest around the farm, lectured him on the care and breeding of Abderdeen-Angus cattle. Late that afternoon, President and Chancellor flew to Washington together in Ike's Aero-Commander...
...Brombergers lay the blame for the failure of the Suez campaign to Eden's failure to start the invasion ships from Malta until after hostilities had actually begun, to his belief that victory could be won by "aero-psychological" means, and to "the conjunction of America and Russia at the U.N., [which] smothered the debarkation in embryo...
Getting Some Air. At week's end, with no Soviet attack materializing out of the intelligence jigsaw puzzle, the President ducked out of the White House for a breather. In his twin-engined Aero Commander he flew to his farm at Gettysburg, donned a brown-and-black-checked cap, a hip-length windbreaker and heavy leather boots, and puttered about in the crisp fall weather "to get some air." Happily he inspected his 20 head of cattle and chatted with the neighbors who accompanied him. ("She's a pip! . . . We ought to hold on to that...