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...sends them schussing wildly down some precipitous slope, and the first freeze finds them strapping skates on wobbly ankles and pretending they are Gordie Howe. But of all the sundry forms of midwinter madness, nothing quite matches that of the iceboater. He may spend the summer sprawling in the cockpit of a Star or Lightning, watching the waves lap gently against his hull, sniffing the sea breeze, and reading John O'Hara. But just let the water turn to ice. Out come the brandy, the long Johns, the parka and the racing goggles-and, lordy, watch his smoke...
Last week on Michigan's Lake St. Clair, William R. Perrigo, 46, climbed into the cockpit of his 24-ft. Thunder Jet and rocketed around an eight-mile course to win the International Skeeter Class championship. A printing-company president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks...
...resemblance ends, for Walleye is one of the U.S.'s most sophisticated and accurate weapons. In its warhead it carries a television camera -aimed, of course, at the ground. As Walleye falls, the camera sends a picture of the target area back to a screen in the cockpit. The pilot focuses the target picture on his screen and by remote control locks the Walleye guidance system on the target at the same time. Billed by its designers as the most accurate bomb ever made, Walleye literally sees its way down to its target with the television camera...
...rocket engine in the tail boomed the experimental NF-104A jet Starfighter up to 90,000 ft. and the edge of space. Then disaster. The craft went into a flat spin and plummeted out of control. In the cockpit, Air Force Colonel Charles (Chuck) Yeager, 40, first man to fly faster than sound and currently C.O. of the Edwards test-pilot school, stayed with the violently whirling plane, trying to bring it out of the spin. Only at 6,000 ft. did he give up and eject, parachuting minutes later onto the Mojave Desert with burns on the left side...
...brilliant lawyer and former Rhodes scholar, he was serving as Under Secretary of the Air Force when Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Eastern's board chairman, and Laurance Rockefeller, the line's largest shareholder, tapped him in 1959 to run Eastern. He concentrated on the cabin instead of the cockpit. He introduced Eastern's famed no-reservation Air Shuttle service, pioneered low-cost Air-Bus travel and made ticketing procedures simpler...