Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breeze with some weight in it. Soon after she cleared Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship for last week's long 635-mile thrash to Bermuda, the wind veered into the northeast. It blew harder as the night wore on. At dawn, Baruna's crew began shortening sail; the jigger was doused and later the mainsail was taken in. With only a Genoa jib set, she boiled along ahead of 35 rival ocean racers...
Twenty times the planes were struck by lightning, which temporarily blinded the crew, burned off radio antennas, punched round holes in wingtips and tail surfaces. One pilot described what it felt like: "The radio static kept building in intensity until I couldn't keep the earphone close to my ears. I heard what sounded like the sharp burst of a German 88 millimeter. A sheet of flame enveloped the whole cockpit. Everything looked a bit fuzzy . . . the instruments jumped around so much that I couldn't tell for a moment what was going on. I just...
Dismayed Her Crew . . . That night at Chicago Stadium he spoke before 20,000 Swedish-Americans who were celebrating the 100th anniversary of Swedish immigration to the Midwest. He pulled out that surefire issue-Communism-and used it as a sort of moral prop for his civil-liberties program, for slum clearance, old-age pensions, and higher minimum wages. The audience was friendly but calm...
Bernadotte had transmitted some of his courtly manners to the plane; when he left Athens, he told the Dutch crew to buzz the royal palace and dip the wings in salute to Queen Frederika. He had brought clothes for every occasion; in Cairo he wore a white tropical suit, in Tel Aviv a grey bemedaled uniform. He also brought considerable Red Cross experience as an intermediary between belligerents. In World War II he had arranged an exchange of disabled German and British prisoners of war, later persuaded the Nazis to send some 15,000 Norwegian and Danish hostages to Sweden...
High over a California desert, the Air Force's famed "Flying Wing" bomber ran into trouble. An eyewitness said that it seemed to explode in the air. Then it plunged down to the sagebrush, killing its crew of five. At week's end, nobody seemed to know what had gone wrong...