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DIED. James Swindal, 88, Air Force One pilot who flew John F. Kennedy's body back to Washington after the President's assassination in Dallas; in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Swindal stayed in the cockpit while the new President was sworn in onboard, minutes before takeoff. "I didn't belong to the Lyndon Johnson team," he said. "My President was in that...
...expect it will be, I still would like to see United 93 [April 17]. That plane's story was the only relatively "good" news on that horrible day. When passenger Todd Beamer said "Let's roll!" and led those heroes forward in their charge on the terrorists in the cockpit, he was partly inspired by a Teddy Roosevelt quotation praising the valiant person "who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." This movie honors the passengers, and I will try to honor them by seeing it, no matter how painful...
...attempted to look somewhat state-school-esque, with parties from Mather to the Quad. Hey, we’ve got to impress the pre-frosh, right? Leverett’s biannual 80s dance was the same as it ever was (Talking Heads, anyone?), but still totally radical. The Eliot Cockpit served up a Kool-Aid punch out of one of those ubiquitous dining hall urns that prompted one prefrosh to ask “Do you guys have any more coffee in there?” Wellesley girls infiltrated the AD’s Wall Street party...
...California's Edwards Air Force Base, slim, hawk-nosed Test Pilot Scott Crossfield, 37, leisurely finished a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, struggled into a silver-tinted pressure suit that had been tailored to a skintight fit by a girdle manufacturer. Minutes later, Crossfield strapped himself into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed...
...Card, 58, sat in the jump seat of the cockpit of the Boeing 747-200B for the landing. At 8:50 p.m., just after Air Force One touched down, Card hustled briskly down the front steps carrying a massive black briefcase, caught up to the President on the Tarmac, and walked him to the waiting Marine One chopper. Three minutes later, they flew off into the night...