Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copilot, Anatoly Barsov, had been planning for a year to escape from Russia and get to the U.S. They had left their base near Lwow, formerly Poland, on a routine training flight that morning and headed for Munich in the U.S. zone of Germany. The third member of their crew, a flight sergeant, was not in on the lieutenants' plan. When they were airborne, Pirogov told the sergeant he could either come along or bail out while still over Russian territory. Since there were no parachutes in the plane, the sergeant elected to stay aboard...
...Navy's new two-place jet fighter, the Douglas XF3D-1 Skyknight, has a special "escape chute" to help its crew bail out. When the pilot decides to abandon ship, he pulls a toggle. The seatbacks swing away. A door at the rear of the cockpit opens, exposing a passage sloping down and back toward the belly of the plane. At the end is a second door with two leaves. The rear leaf flies off into space. The forward leaf is pushed out hydraulically to form a windscreen. When escaping crewmen slide down the chute, the screen softens...
Unfortunately for Pete Putnam and his crew, the "Cup" turned out to be an empty wine bottle, and the "shirts" were empty potato sacks...
...foot-square chunk of wood and a shower of smaller pieces plummetted down from the Eliot tower yesterday initiating a thorough investigation by the University maintenance crew...
Radcliffe crew members are: Beatrice Binger '52, Sally Cushman '50, Marie Louise Horgan '52, Hope Ingersoll '50, Miss Jaffe, Elizabeth Keating '51, Miss Reed, Ellinor Robinson '52, Mary Shiverick '52, Mary Stokes '51, Miss Trygstad, and Cornelia Wilkins...