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Same day, the bodies of four American servicemen were flown home to the U.S. Victims of South Viet Nam's tortuous war by chopper, they were killed earlier in the week when their helicopter crashed under Communist ground fire. Total number of Americans killed in action so far: eleven...
Next day the Kennedys took off for Hyannisport. Boarding a helicopter on the White House lawn, Jack had to wait 20 minutes for Jackie. As he sat reading a newspaper in the chopper, Caroline joined him. Then she spied her Russian dog, Pushinka, a gift last summer from Nikita Khrushchev, and bounded across the lawn in pursuit. President Kennedy got out of the helicopter, retrieved his daughter, sent an aide into the White House to see what was delaying his wife, and finally the family departed. At Andrews Air Force Base, the Kennedys transferred to an Air Force jet, shared...
...capsule descended, swinging widely on its chute, and the choppers buzzed to meet it. They were hovering close when it hit the water with a small splash, three miles away. Shepard had already asked by radio to be taken aboard; so Crook Wielder Cox got a line around the capsule, steadied it and lowered a horsecollar sling to lift Shepard to the chopper.* Safe in the cabin, the first U.S. astronaut exulted: "It's a beautiful day. Boy, what a ride...
...Gulf of Mexico, were picked up by a helicopter shortly after their gondola landed in the water. Commander Ross rode a horsecollar sling to safety. Commander Prather, a Navy medical officer on his third balloon ascent, fell from the sling as he was rising to ward the hovering chopper. Dragged under by the weight of his pressure suit, he died soon after a frogman hauled him to the surface...
...mass-produced kits or blueprints. San Diego's Jim Cassell and Don Machado, both technical illustrators, are designing a helicopter that will fold its rotors, drive like a car on the ground. Draftsman Herman Saalfeld of San Diego planned his own 6-ft. 6-in. Skyshooter, a sophisticated chopper that carries two passengers in a bubble canopy, boasts a top speed of 95 m.p.h. and a range of 250 miles. "I don't know how high the damned thing will go," says Saalfeld. "I got it up to nearly 6,000 ft. once, and it was still climbing...