Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the curtain of military secrecy was lifted from G.C.A. in mid-1945, CAA's critical eye had found many shortcomings in its commercial usefulness. The military sets required a crew of five-far too many for round-the-clock operations on CAA's tight budget. Many pilots disliked the idea of putting themselves in the hands of an unknown operator on the ground. Furthermore, G.C.A. was not foolproof-a fact emphasized this week when a Navy four-engined transport, landing through the fog at the Oakland airport under G.C.A. control, crashed and burned...
...young Bill Keyes. His 15 fellow passengers and the plane's three crew members were dead...
After twelve days in the vast loneliness of the world's last no man's land, six survivors of a crashed Navy flying boat, all members of the Byrd Expedition, were rescued on the edge of ice-clad Antarctica. Three of the crew had died...
...fortunate were the crew and passengers of a charter plane flying from Miami to Newark the same night. Trying for an emergency landing in southern New Jersey, Pilot Robert Sheker could not see the field, crashed in a patch of woods. Three were killed, 19 hurt...
Northrop was persuaded to go out on the limb because of its experience in working with light materials. Designed by a crew of engineers, the Northrop arm is a plastic and aluminum affair weighing half a pound to a pound less than previous arms. Other advantages: a new wrist mechanism (for arms amputated below the elbow) which makes it possible to rotate the wrist in either direction; a steel cable, replacing smelly leather thongs; an improved elbow lock. The Northrop leg, similarly, is lighter, has a suction socket and locking knee...