Word: copter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copilot does everything else, including aiming and setting the camera. Silva and G.E. engineers solved the transmitting problem by tacking a 3-ft.-long modified helical antenna on the whirlybird, setting up a receiving dish atop KTLA's Mount Wilson power plant. The dish follows the copter's movements, relays its signals onto the horne screen. Cost of camera equipment: $40,000; helicopter...
...transmitting, the copter must remain within line-of-sight range of the Mount Wilson receiver. But within that range, KTLA will offer its viewers close-up looks at everything from traffic tie-ups to mountainside rescues, crew races and forest fires...
...head and face. Then they packed 4-ft. Kim into a 3-ft. crate used to carry plane parts, put holes in it to give him air and loaded their cargo aboard a helicopter. The camp commander, Major Thomas G. James of Plymouth, Pa., flew the copter himself. James planned to leave the boy at a disused field and make him walk back to Ascom City. But he found he could not get the box open, and flew on to Uijongbu, twelve miles north of Seoul. 'T have a box of spare parts on board," he radioed the field...
...single concession to TV, the chatter is usually preceded by a Gibson-wrought gimmick: Gibson sliding onto the set in a Mercedes-Benz, riding a horse across stage, standing in a snowstorm outside flinging snowballs, or giving heli copter lessons from a whirlybird hovering above the station parking...
...Much was made of the fact that Ike's trip was the first U.S. presidential helicopter flight. Actually, Eisenhower is no whirlybird newcomer; as NATO commander (1951-52) he racked up many copter hours inspecting troops and installations in Western Europe. * Asked the Boston Globe's Herbert Kenny: "Will Ike find rapport / at Newport? / Will his temper distort / at Newport? / Would the weather dare thwart / his transport of sport / the day they escort / Ike to the seaport of Newport...