Word: copters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lockheed has based much of its future on the C-5A and the Cheyenne. While the former is in trouble over costs, the latter is being criticized for its performance. The Cheyenne, a highly advanced, heavily armed "compound helicopter" can both hover like a copter and fly on stubby wings, propelled by a "pusher prop" that speeds it up to 250 m.p.h. Last week the Army abruptly canceled Lockheed's production contract for 375 of the aircraft. Cancellation means a loss of $250 million in orders already in hand, and much more in potential business. Lockheed has already laid...
Once the fire died down, the men did busywork or went on fire patrol, an institutionalized form of loafing. The copter pilots would fly several squads, sometimes only a few hundred yards (BLM paid the helicopter rental companies by flight time--$130-$1,125 per hour), to a hillside behind the fire where they were instructed to build fire lines. The firefighters could see little point in doing the work, especially since the snow would soon extinguish the wilderness blaze without human intervention...
...most colorful scene was at the village of Mosquera, 13 miles from Bogota, where the Pope was set down by helicopter before 50,000 campesinos. Leaving his copter, Paul boarded a white Jeep and, for half an hour, drove through a multitude of awed faces. Present in the crowd were "typical" peasants from 21 Latin American coun tries, selected to attend the confrontation with the Pontiff. Bolivia sent the head of its National Peasants' Union...
Grown Americans Do. When the exhibit opened, the viewers certainly participated-but not always in ways that had been anticipated. On the third day, some 80-odd flower children staged a swarm-in, temporarily seized the personnel carrier and the copter, and forced the museum to close down the exhibit for half an hour. Pickets 150 strong showed up outside, carrying signs reading L.B.J.'S HEAD START TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO KILL. A group called Veterans for Peace in Viet Nam fired off a letter to the Army condemning the show as a "do-it-yourself massacre." A delegation...
...about to quit the place when I met a soldier from Seattle, a helicopter gunner from the 162nd Assault Copter Co. in Phu Binh. He had been in Vietnam for 17 months but had never seen Saigon--and he was only in town this time to take a flight physical for helicopter pilot school in Alabama. He thought he had passed the physical and so became quite expansive, telling me about himself and his work "up north." He was a high school drop-out before enlisting and had failed at a few endeavors before the army...