Word: earhart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of jet and rocket power, aviation's headline-getters usually fly worlds faster, farther and higher than such lonesome greats of the olden days as Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post and Lindbergh. But the airman who comes closest to matching the oldtime sense of personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca...
...Depression . . . And I remember well the day when the author of this book, my son James, said to me pathetically at lunch: 'If I paid five cents extra, Mother, could I have a glass of milk?' And there was the time [the late aviatrix] Amelia Earhart, who was staying with us on a brief visit, said she was hungry and could get nothing to eat in the late evening. This was because she did not know how to go about it. And my son John found the icebox locked at night and was outraged. I think I know...
Divorced. By Ruth Elder. 47, aviatrix of the '20s who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic (the first: Amelia Earhart, in 1928): sixth husband Ralph King, 54, cinema cameraman; after 1½ years of marriage; in Los Angeles, after she testified that he called her "a grey-headed old bag" and said he "wanted a young chick...
...example, Parks cites a married couple on one of his shows who had a chance to win $3,700 by identifying the World War II head of the WASPs. The woman whispered the correct answer (Jacqueline Cochran) to her husband, but he shook his head, said, "Amelia Earhart." Chuckles Parks: "I thought she'd kill him when I said Earhart was wrong. We kept the TV camera on them as they went down to their seats, and she was really giving it to him hot & heavy for losing all that money. It was a scream...
...years ago, when no enemy had any A-bombs to drop on the U.S. Northrop has i habit of looking ahead. A onetime garage mechanic, he helped found Lockheed Aircraft, designed the Lockheed Vega, used by Wiley Post on his two flights around the world and by Amelia Earhart on her second transatlantic flight in 1932. On his own, Northrop built the Alpha, forerunner of the modern low-wing, all-metal monoplane, and pioneered multicellular metal construction in commercial airplanes. He had long dreamed of an all-wing (i.e., Flying Wing) as the plane of the future, and had flown...