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...crew is handpicked. Assisting Draper, who doubles as presidential Air Force aide, are Majors William W. Thomas, the copilot, and Vincent Puglisi, the navigator. The five enlisted crewmen, all master sergeants, are graduates of Lockheed's factory school in Burbank, Calif. Every three months the pilots go through a rigid flight test under the gimlet eyes of top Air Force inspectors. Before each flight they plan how to buckle on Ike's parachute within 30 seconds. Before the President takes a trip, they may fly thousands of miles from Washington merely to practice instrument landings at his destination...
...turned and dove under clouds. One wing caught fire from the machine-gun bursts. The plane later crash-landed on St. Lawrence Island. The landing was smooth as a landing like that can be." The eleven crewmen were soon picked up by Eskimos, and were later flown back to their base in Alaska by U.S. rescue planes."There was no panic at any time," Lieut. Fischer concluded. "The men were laughing and joking-except those in pain from burns...
...been tested and certified for presidential airlifting by the Air Force as well as the Secret Service. (On one test flight the plane was flown from Bethany, Okla. to Washington on one engine.) It has a cruising speed of 200 m.p.h., can accommodate two passengers and two crewmen (on comfortable seats upholstered in blue nylon). Its cost to the Government: approximately $75,000. The President has not christened the plane yet, but the crew calls...
Spaciousness and privacy are emphasized from stem to stern. The traditional three-tiered bunks for crewmen remain -but with a difference. They have been ' compartmentalized like Pullman berths, with lightweight, perforated "privacy partitions." Each bunk is equipped with a bed lamp and a pocket for books. Each tier of three has a fireproof, "Sandbrown" curtain, and most are ventilated with electric fans. There are nearly twice as many lockers as sailors aboard. Each compartment has folding chairs, a table and a hi-fi radio speaker as standard equipment...
Discussing the theory behind the new comforts, the Carronade's skipper, Lieut. Commander Daniel O'Connell Doran, said: "An American boy is used to home and having his own room and all we have to draw on are American boys." Among the Carronade's 137 crewmen and seven officers, only the newest apprentice seamen were blase about their ship. The oldtimers were astounded. "I can walk around," said Boatswain's Mate Bill Smith, who is 6 ft. 6 in. tall, and weighs 240 Ibs. "Look at my head miss the overhead. That pastel green overhead. That...