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...daughter-in-law of France's ex-President Auriol and recent setter of the women's unofficial speed record (TIME, June 13). The grounds for her grounding were tersely set forth by a nettled official of Brétigny Air Center, where Jacqueline, a madcap in a cockpit, seared her new mark (708 m.p.h.): "You have flown too low, too fast. You have taken too many risks. You will be punished and suspended...
...come to open a new stage on the road toward a United Europe") and ended with a committee ("to study the creation of a common organization .. .") Perhaps too much had been sought too soon, sighed some good Europeans: perhaps this cluster of nations which had so often been a cockpit of war must first learn to work together as nations. Perhaps the slower way was the surer way . . . But it was not said with much enthusiasm...
...sound barrier (in Bell's X-I), makes an entrance in Bridgeman's book that is worthy of jet-age grand opera-and typical of Yeager. As Bridgeman started his first rocket flight in the Skyrocket, bright sunlight made it difficult to read the dials in the cockpit. Suddenly a shadow hovered over his face, and a relaxed voice came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying chase in an F-86 jet, had screened the sun. It was Bridgeman's introduction to Yeager. From then on, he hovers over many of Bridgeman...
...Baltimore. J. J. Ryan of General Mills. Inc., reported on a new device designed to help end much of the uncertainty about crashes due to air failure: a flight recorder, set in the cockpit, that transcribes the plane's speed, direction, altitude and vertical acceleration. Designed to withstand shock as well as fire, the instrument will keep operating ten minutes after engine failure, furnish possible clues to what happened in the crash. Moreover, used in normal safe trips, the recorder's data will provide a valuable added record of pilot performance and flight irregularities...
...runway, control towers and controls, and all the paper work that makes life so intolerable these days for the private aviator. Give me a field with a circle in the middle, and let us still enjoy those things which have almost disappeared with the biplane and the open cockpit...