Word: crosswind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload of fuel, into the blue yonder, westbound for Trinidad as his first landfall. Casually opening his remaining envelope, he made a discomfiting discovery: he had mistakenly left his charts behind, had a choice of burning up his excess fuel and returning to Africa...
...some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing delicately each force that tends to divert the airplane from its proper course. A crosswind, for instance, is felt as a push from one side, and its effect is evaluated. All the deviations are "integrated" (put together and added up) by electronic computing devices. So the pilot, says Ryan, always knows where...
Demanding a full investigation, Director Glass charged that "it would appear that the aircraft was operated carelessly and recklessly." Into the Fray. Over the air, Godfrey kept explaining all week to his audiences that he was forced into the left turn by a gusty crosswind. He complained that he had been refused the use of another runway heading into the wind. He alternately joked about the incident ("Who is this fellow Glass? Maybe he wants to run for governor") and darkly warned that the airport was being mismanaged. In Manhattan, columnists leaped into the. fray...
Greeley led off the eighth with a hard double that landed in deep left-centerfield, despite a strong crosswind. Dick Clasby walked, and Johnson loaded the bases by beating out a neat sacrifice bunt which the Holy Cross infield didn't have time to play...
...crosswind whipped the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground as two riflemen stepped up to the firing line. The marksmen took aim, squeezed off a few single shots, then flipped the rate-of-fire levers on their rifles and sprayed out a rippling burst of full automatic fire at the target. The riflemen were two of the country's top small-arms experts: Major General Julian S. Hatcher, U.S.A., ret., and retired Marine Major General Merritt A. Edson. They were at Aberdeen to try out the Army's secret, new, lightweight .30-cal. automatic rifle...