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...Corridor Incidents. But despite Gromyko's willingness to confer, it was still not certain that Nikita Khrushchev was ready to negotiate on rational terms. Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovosky, in an ominous article in Pravda, said that Russia must arm its forces for "a strenuous, difficult and exceptionally fierce war." Along Western air corridors to Berlin, Soviet MIG-17s began making close-up inspections of U.S. passenger liners-the first such incidents in a year. There was a rising chorus of East German and Soviet complaints that the Allies were "misusing" the corridors-a possible foreshadowing of Red efforts...
...they heard occasional interfering signals, as if the Communists were testing jamming devices to knock out the planes' radio navigation. Some crews reported East German searchlights on them. And one afternoon last week, Pan American's Flight No. 609, flying well in the center of the northern corridor to Hamburg, spotted a Soviet MIG-17 fighter with six rockets under each wing soaring 200 ft. off the airliner's right wingtip. "He just sat there, where all the passengers could see him," said Pan Am Captain Tony Duff. When Duff's plane entered a convenient layer...
Heading a five-man team financed by the Arctic Institute of North America, Columbia's Ralph S. Solecki focused his search on a desolate coastal plain 300 miles east of Point Barrow. There, he reasoned, a narrow coastal strip protected by mountains suggested a natural corridor for early nomads. "Like modern campers," said Solecki, "they liked to set themselves up in well-drained spots sheltered from the wind...
...Tunner's airlift required eight airfields in West Germany and three in Berlin, including famed Tempelhof, which was ringed by buildings. Tunner would use just three fields this time: at the West German end, the two closest to Berlin in the central air corridor, and in Berlin, unobstructed Tegel Airport in the French sector. Using these three fields would avoid the 5,000-ft. climb to clear mountains, cut the average distance nearly in half, permit the planes to flow toward Tegel at a mere 500 ft., returning in a wide northern loop to approach their home fields from...
...Kids. In the cockpit, Oquendo braced himself against the closed door, tapped Flight Engineer Philip Knudsen menacingly with his gun whenever anyone reached for a switch without explanation. Pilot Buchanan nursed a double worry: the Cuban air force might attack because he was out of the normal Havana approach corridor ("They have some hot airplanes there with hotheaded kids flying them," he reported later), and the gunman might start shooting if any passengers tried to storm the door. He got Oquendo's permission to make one laconic announcement on the plane's public-address system: "Ladies and gentlemen...