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...Threskiornis aethiopica, has been missed before but never for so long a time. American Airlines pilot Edwin Walter, who saw the bird winging westward over the Golden Gate as he was preparing to land, said "it looked happy though homesick." Walter took several photographs of it from a cockpit window...
...whine of a J47 jet engine. Technicians huddled around their electric timers. "Here he comes!" somebody shouted. A strange object that looked like a wingless jet airplane flashed into sight, roared past and disappeared, leaving waves of refracted light dancing in the brilliant desert dawn. Strapped in his cramped cockpit, Craig Breedlove, 26, pressed a button that released two colored parachutes, and the Spirit of America skidded to a halt. "All I know," he said, "is that I was moving fast." The timers told how fast: in two runs through Bonneville's measured mile, Breedlove had averaged 407.45 m.p.h...
...wife had little enthusiasm for sailing, and from watching her O'Day got some idea of what women dislike about boats. His Day Sailer was made of Fiberglas instead of wood for easier maintenance and easier production, held six in the cockpit instead of the maximum of three people that most sailboats are ideally designed to carry. It rode far up in the water to decrease splashing while under way, had a peculiarly high boom to clear landlubbers' heads when it swung around too fast, included such gadgets as shelves for feminine gear. An ugly duckling...
...fellow airline presidents for not opposing Government intrusion and union demands more vigorously. "The heads of many airlines are living in the past," he says. "The airline industry is now a sophisticated business, but too many of the guys running airlines are the same ones who started the open-cockpit mail runs." He calmly took on Pan American President Juan Trippe, forcing him to return 390,000 shares that Pan Am had acquired in a swap during a 1958 merger maneuver that came to naught...
...children from the first Maytag marriage). A self-styled "free enterpriser," he strongly backs Barry Goldwater for the presidency. He is the only airline president who is checked out to fly jets (he never pilots passenger flights), but his favorite flying is weekend stunting in his 1940 vintage, open-cockpit PT-17 biplane. Painted boldly on its fuselage is the word NATIONAL -written upside down. Maytag wants it that way so that when he is showboating upside down, National will be right side...