Word: airman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talce-Offs & Landings. In Buffalo, police finally caught up with elusive Airman Frederick R. Scott. 24, after he had gone AWOL six times, re-enlisted five times with the aid of fake discharge papers, collected some $4,000 in re-enlistment bonuses...
...Airman Galland blamed Germany's "indescribable misery" on the Allied bombing, and after a few years went off to authoritarian Argentina to ply his trade as adviser to Perón's Aeronautics Ministry. Galland stayed carefully out of politicking in Argentina's tight little ex-Nazi community...
...home, the No. 1 candidate for commander of the soon-to-be 80,000-man West German air force. He landed in Frankfurt after six years' absence, cried: "I am happy to be back," and promptly denied the headlines about his new post. But the tall, slim airman, now 43, talked suspiciously like a commanding officer: "The new German air force will not be built around World War II flyers, who are now too old. It will be built around youth. It's now become a necessary evil for Germany to rearm." For the record, Bureau Blank, West...
...puttylike material for oxygen masks that can be molded to fit the individual airman's face−for men who cannot fit standard rubber oxygen masks...
Gauntlet of Fire. No airman can predict the kill rate if the attack force of 900 Soviet bombers strikes. "There are," said General Chidlaw, "too many intangible factors. Obviously, if the enemy struck in perfect weather and in small numbers, we'd do a most creditable job in cleaning him up ... Bad weather and a tremendous mass of enemy planes might give us a hard time." Currently, U.S. defenses have serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range...