Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Continental Air Lines. The $2,000,000 airliner had been lifted skyward on its maiden flight by Test Pilot William Carr, 36, for a trial turn over the Pacific at 10,000 ft., then back in a climbing arch over the valley to 25,000 ft. The four-man crew logged a routine test. Twice Santa Monica's Clover Field received position reports radioed by Copilot Archie Twitchell, 51, whose 34 years of flying were interlinked with a 65-picture acting career in the neighboring movie studios (Souls at Sea, Tragedy at Midnight, I Wanted Wings...
...chunk of the fallen metal. Another youngster's abdomen was ripped open by a piece of flying metal. When the debris settled and the screams were stilled, three boys were dead or dying, 78 others hurt. Dead also: the airliner's four-man crew and Scorpion Pilot Owen. Scorpion Radarman Adams parachuted out, landed badly burned and unable to contribute an explanation of the collision. Busy at his radar, he had not seen the DC-7B until an instant before the planes...
...many of them with clothes blazing-jumped from the wreckage and staggered away. First to the rescue were 50 fast-moving trusties from the island's city-run penitentiary, who rushed outside, fought their way to the planeside and helped survivors to safety. The count: of the six crew members and 95 passengers aboard, 20 killed, 50-odd hospitalized. Said Pilot Marsh dazedly: "Her power just drained out. She just wouldn...
...crew will try to get out on the river during the last week in February, according to head manager Fritz Osterr '57. "Although we might not make it until March, the river is pretty soft now, and we hope that it will break up in time," he said...
Coach Brown feels that the weather, rather than lack of men or equipment, is the prime factor operating against his crew. He pointed out that Harvard is the northernmost large rowing college, except for Dartmouth...