Word: airman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social season. After cheering Sir Anthony Eden's Palmerstonian boast that the Royal Navy "will take care of" any Egyptian warships on the loose, the House of Commons, like the French Assembly, adjourned for the summer. But the urgency was real. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, great airman turned topflight military strategist, spoke for many Britons when he said, "We are faced today with a challenge in the Middle East potentially no less mortal than that in the Europe of 1938-though far more easily countered if we have the courage." The comparison on everybody's lips...
...Russians show an intense interest in research and development. Unlike the U.S. Air Force, which scrambles for every development dollar, Soviet research and development is limited only by the resources of the Soviet Union. Said one U.S. airman: "They simply lay down their requirements, and the Kremlin approves...
...nearly six months, peak-nosed Airman William P. (for Powell) Lear, 54, a restless, uninhibited manufacturer-inventor (Lear, Inc.), has been flying his Cessna 310 plane around Europe on a businessman's crusade. He wanted to show Europeans how simple and safe it was to fly their own planes, especially with the Lear automatic pilot, the Lear automatic direction finder and the Lear omnirange navigational system. Fortnight ago, in Hamburg, Bill Lear got an even better idea. Why not be the first postwar private flyer to go to Moscow and show off U.S. equipment...
...Said Airman Lear: "Of course the plane is on the embargo list. All aviation equipment is on the NATO embargo list, including General Twining's DC-6." From what he had seen of Red equipment, added Lear, the Russians could probably use some of his flight aids. On their prize Tu-104 jet transport, for example, the auto pilot was "right out of our old B17. You can buy one in any junk market for six dollars." But, said Lear, he was not planning to sell "a single bolt or screw" to the Russians...
...plane was Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader. The new jet had already landed successfully on the supercarrier Forrestal's big 1,036-ft. deck; now it proved that it could also nest on the standard 876-ft. deck length of Essex-Oriskany-class carriers. Exulted one airman: "This baby takes us out of the third row and puts us right up front...