Word: aircrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most remarkable aspect of SAC's reply to Khrushchev is that SAC has also fashioned a safety catch for its hair trigger, a crucial check upon the deterrent power, so as to rule out the minuscule but horrifying chance that World War III might explode out of one aircrew's accident or aberration or miscalculation. Name of SAC's safety catch: Fail Safe...
...picture side of the story, McCulloch called in Los Angeles Photographer John Bryson, onetime LIFE correspondent. Cameraman Bryson took a twelve-hour, high-altitude aircrew course and a high-altitude chamber test to prepare for aerial shots, and set up an elaborate weather-warning system so he would get the word as soon as a rare clear day began to dawn. For three months Bryson matched guesses with the Weather Bureau, peered disconsolately through smog, cruised 1,668 miles by car, flew uncounted thousands of miles more in prop planes, jets and helicopters (at times dangling out of the belly...
...five cadets will become familiar with the Air-Force and its various operations functions, particularly the aircraft and the aircrew. It is planned to have them prepare flight plans, take Link trainer flights. Study meteorology, learn control tower operation, and actually handle the controls of a plane in flight...