Word: airmanship
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...into a steep dive. But the airliner kept taking hits. Syd's Pirates: A Story of an Airline (Durnmount, 1983), by retired Cathay senior captain Charles "Chic" Eather, documents the attack. Eather, now 81 and living on Australia's Gold Coast, recalls that despite Blown's outstanding airmanship, there was no way to evade the Chinese attackers...
Next day, with what could only be described as understatement, the Federal Aviation Agency presented Kimes and his crew with the FAA's Exceptional Service medal for a "masterful feat of airmanship...
...youngest military service. It sent copies of the magazine to 660 Information Service officers at U.S. bases around the world. At the Air Force Academy Brigadier General Robert M. Stillman, cadet commandant, ordered copies for each of the 265 cadets. TIME'S story will be used in the Airmanship Division of Cadet Studies and may be incorporated into academy textbooks. Said General Stillman: "TIME writers and photographers are to be congratulated for an excellent story ... a detailed and comprehensive study...
Last week, the checks completed, United Air Lines' Convair fleet was back in the air, and President W. A. Patterson found a fitting reward for the superb airmanship of flight 329's crew. To Captain E. W. Andreasen, 34, and Co-Pilot T. D. Boyle, 28, he handed bonus checks of $10,000 each; to Stewardess Pat Johnson, 28, he gave $2,500. He also added a postscript: United will pay the income taxes on the bonuses...
...place greater emphasis on the liberal arts than either West Point or Annapolis-3,177 hours of the sciences, social studies and the humanities, compared to 2,176 of "airmanship...