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...sensation, I felt buoyant to the point of exaltation. And not necessarily because of the novelty alone. To Stallings, after 38 hours, zero gravity is old hat, yet he still feels exhilarated by it, aptly calls it "like swimming without getting wet." Airman Brett got no such emotional lift, only a solid, 4-g satisfaction from a job well done. It depends...
...Ought to Know." Miami's Lowe appealed for help to the national CAP commander in Washington, then to the FBI and the Air Force as well. Eventually, on a flight to Miami, Pierce did look up Lowe to try to calm him down. According to Lowe, Airman Pierce said that he was "official scrounger" for the New York CAP; that by ringing doorbells he had collected enough money to buy the New York pilots the latest radio equipment, buses and other luxuries. And where did the rest of the money come from? As Lowe recalls, Pierce replied...
Isolation. Loneliness is an appalling depressant by itself. For all his Navy training and lofty motivation, a six-month Antarctic night threw Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd into depression. Airman Donald Farrell, after less than a week of far less severe isolation in a ground-bound cabin (TIME. Feb. 24), became not only irritable but hostile. His log for the seventh morning of his week-long simulated flight to the moon bristles with sputtering four-letter obscenities, includes...
...Arthur Radford, a leader in the Navy's 1945-47 fight against military unification, who began changing his mind about reorganization during his 1953-57 terms as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "I don't know what is coming in the next ten years," said Airman Radford, "but there are going to be tremendous changes. If we don't have a flexible organization-that is, if we don't have the ability to change our organization to meet changing circumstances-we can be in great trouble...
...every airman knows, there are too many airlines. To every nation, big or little, a "flag carrier" is a matter of national prestige. Since landing rights are awarded on a reciprocal basis, even the smallest nation can get into the business merely by awarding landing rights to other countries. At last count, no fewer than 200 so-called international airlines were in the air-when possibly half that number could...