Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese fishing junks last February while yachting between Hong Kong and Macao. Released last week, they told of seeing widespread roadblocks and military activity whenever they were shifted from place to place. From his shuttered room in a rural commune, Simeon Baldwin, Hong Kong-based manager of an aircraft-parts firm, said that he could hear the local army units at bayonet practice. "There is constant talk of defense and you see preparations for war everywhere. My interpreters really believed that the U.S. and the Soviet Union are conspiring to invade China." Once he asked, "Are you really expecting...
...must correct the erroneous impression that "a single shot through the highly pressurized skin of a jetliner could cause a plane to explode in flight" [Nov. 21]. It is doubtful if a man could physically carry enough small arms ammunition on board to cause the aircraft to "explode." Each bullet hole would cause the pressurization system to pump more air into the cabin. The noise level would certainly increase, but it would take literally hundreds of bullet holes to exceed the capacity of the system...
...pilot, a former national officer of the pilots association and currently a jet captain; the design of the airframe and the redundancy of the systems preclude catastrophic failure as a result of small arms fire. Our reluctance to resist stems from the vulnerability of the pilots. We, not the aircraft, are the weak link in the resistance chain. We do not advocate a "shootout at 30,000 ft.," but we must encourage rational resistance to epidemic air piracy...
Died. Claude Dornier, 85, German aeronautical engineer whose career kept him in the front rank of his country's aircraft industry for five decades; in Zug, Switzerland. Dornier designed the world's first metal airplane in 1911, built thousands of bombers and fighters in both world wars, and in recent years experimented with a series of novel vertical takeoff and landing craft. But his greatest fame still stems from the mammoth DO-X flying boat built in 1929. It had twelve engines, a wingspan of 157 ft. and a passenger capacity of 169. Uneconomic though...
...Soviet squadron includes a fifth plane-the prize of the lot. The Israelis have captured, virtually intact, a sweptwing, Soviet-made Sukhoi-7, the basic Soviet tactical attack aircraft. It is the first Sukhoi to fall into Western hands-and its capture is a coup of considerable significance. The Israelis acquired the Sukhoi as the result of sheer luck. Its Egyptian pilot bailed out after the plane was hit over the Giddi Pass in Sinai. The Sukhoi then made an unbelievably smooth belly landing in the soft, flat sand. Trucked away under camouflage nets, it was quickly made flightworthy. Israeli...