Word: dc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flying Constellations and DC-7's brought from Lufthansa, the aircrews change registration numbers on the otherwise unmarked planes from American to Mauretanian as the circumstances require. "We carry our registration in a can of paint," McGuire says, stirring it up with a free hand...
...airlift runs a delicate course between the thunderstorms always encountered at night, and the radar-directed anti-aircraft fire which grows heavier as the storms fade. When he began flying for the outfit, it had six Constellations and one DC-7. of the Constellations, one was hijacked and flown to Madrid; a second was impounded when it made a forced landing on Malta (when its flight plan said it was going to New York). A third crashed in the jungle killing all aboard, and a fourth was blown up in Bisau, reportedly by a South African...
...Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew of 16, the interrupted maiden flight of the brand-new giant DC-8 jetliner turned into 55 hours of bone-wearying imprisonment that had diplomats in Washington and Moscow on tenterhooks...
Bully Beef & Noodles. Tosolini's first inkling of trouble aloft was the sight of a MIG off his starboard wing. The Soviet pilot gestured to Tosolini to follow him. The DC-8 did, but when it veered off the new course for a few seconds, the MIG's guns belched a short burst. However, the shots were aimed away from the airliner. Nor did the Russians at Iturup seem unfriendly. When food aboard the airliner gave out, Soviet military rations of bread, cheese, butter, weak coffee, bully beef and noodles were provided, as well as cigarettes. During their second night...
...accomplish before he and Audrey can ride off into the sunset. For one thing, Six wants to be on hand for the day when Continental takes delivery of the three huge 747s that it has on order. "I'm the guy who took a look at the DC-3 and thought it was too big to fly. So I want to see these big ones come...