Word: antietam
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...nothing more beautiful than the Great Smokies when the rhododendron and the laurel are in bloom. They whispered in the cathedral silence of the towering rain forests of the Northwest. And they shivered a little as they summoned up the ghostly crash of battle at Chickamauga, Fredericksburg and Antietam...
...come the U.S. Antietam "glows?" I refer to your color spread on U.S. air power. You owe the millions of photographers of the country an explanation of what lit up a carrier so brilliantly that you can take a night color photo, obviously from an airplane. Are those lights on the side standard gear on the new carriers...
...Antietam's glow came from specially mounted 25-foot poles holding 800 flashbulbs which were synchronized with a camera mounted in a Navy blimp...
Born in his grandfather's farmhouse on the battlefield of Antietam ("The battle was over, of course"), Snavely entered Johns Hopkins University at 15, eventually wound up with a Ph.D. in Romance languages. In 1937, after serving as president of Birmingham-Southern College, he took the top administrative post of A.A.C. Since then, A.A.C.'s membership has grown from 495 to over 702-and its influence has grown accordingly...
Arresting gear-wire cables snagged by a long hook dangling from a plane's tail-will be mounted across the landing flight path, as usual. But the new, angled deck* will not need the wire barrier that once cut across the Antietam to keep a bad landing from becoming a disaster. Without that barrier, planes that missed the arresting gear were almost certain to damage others on the deck. Now, a pilot who overshoots the mark will have a chance to go around again. He can drag low across the landing area without crashing into the wings of parked...