Word: airing
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...ever seen close up. It was also the start of the first permanent scheduled airline service in the U.S. More than half a century later, TIME'S Jerry Hannifin finally realized his childhood dream by flying a restored Swallow. He has logged 2,550 hours in the air as a pilot, flying planes that ranged from a J-3 Cub to the Air Force's giant B-52G. An unabashed aerophile who has never let his FAA license expire, Hannifin goes by a simple credo: "I fly whenever I get the chance." He drew on his lifetime...
When Hannifin landed at TIME in 1946, he recalls, commercial aviation was still the domain of a few strong-willed and innovative men who ran their fledgling airlines with a fierce competitiveness. Among them was C.E. Woolman, who started Delta Air Lines with a pair of Huff-Daland crop-dusting airplanes in Georgia. And Captain Eddie Rickenbacker-Hannifin calls him "great, truly fearless and fascinatingly irascible"-who built Eastern Air Lines by flying DC-3's to remote East Coast outposts along what he called "Tobacco Road" routes. Alexander G. Hardy, former Senior Vice President of National Airlines, once...
...full capacity and airports are overcrowded. The airlines that Hannifin has covered for so long have grown into vast corporations; the executives he interviews these days are members of a new breed, more sophisticated and less rambunctious than their predecessors, perhaps, but as competitive. For Hannifin, the romance of air travel has not been lost. Says he: "There is still a grand sense of freedom in the air." Must be. TIME's Photographer Dirck Halstead averaged 1,760 air miles a day for eight days to take the color pictures for our story. And, despite the crowds, Halstead still...
Skora had not simply built a robot; any science fair show-off can do that. He had built a better robot. At 6 ft. 8 in. and 275 lbs., Arok looks something like an air-conditioning duct on roller skates. But this man of steel can lift 125 lbs. dead weight, bend 45° at the waist and locomote forward or backward at a top speed of 3 m.p.h. Arok can vacuum the rug, take out the trash, serve a tray of Dr. Peppers' (Skora does not drink hard liquor...
...fern. Where morning sun lights the red leaves and the dark still conifers, the river sparkles in the forest shad ow; turquoise and white, it thunders past spray-shined boulders, foaming pools, in a long rocky chute of broken rapids. In the cold breath of the torrent, the dry air is softened by mist; this water trickled through the snow under last night's stars. At the head of the waterfall, downstream, its sparkle leaps into the air, leaps at the sun, and sunrays are tumbled in the luminescent waves that dance against the snows of southern mountains. Upstream...