Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation in Curtiss F8C4 Hell-divers, tied wingtip to wingtip with Manila rope. Bound thus, Thach and some of his comrades astonished crowds with loops, snap rolls and high wing overs-and never snapped a rope or a wing. When Hollywood filmed Hell Divers in 1931, the High Hats flew all the stunt scenes. Clark Gable's flying standin: Art Radford, now retired after topping his career with four years of service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Jimmy Thach lived airplanes. He was an ace test pilot, flew patrol duty in the Aleutians in Martin PBM-15 ("The bearskin flying suits stank like hell"), catapulted off a turret top of the cruiser U.S.S. Cincinnati in SOC-15, patrolled the Canal Zone in PBYs. Stationed in San Diego in the 19305, Thach met and married Madalyn Jones (they have two sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them...
...citizen, coolly identified himself to a TIME correspondent as pilot of the plane. A rebel sympathizer who married into a wealthy Cuban family 17 years ago, Dayton-born Charles Hormel (distant kin to the meat-packing family) began flying to rebel territory last October. Twenty-seven times he flew an arms-laden plane, usually rented at Miami International Airport, to Cuba. After ditching on flight 28, he swam ashore, and the rebels put him on a bus for Havana. The Navy recovered the plane, found it loaded with M1 and M2 rifles, Thompson submachine guns and ammunition. Hormel flew...
Whisked from the White House lawn to Washington National Airport by a Marine Corps helicopter, President Eisenhower flew to New York in Columbine III, sped to Park Avenue's Waldorf-Astoria in his bubble-top Lincoln. In his 35th-floor...
...charge of an expanding North African intelligence network. North Africa began Murphy's cloakand-dagger days. On the eve of the U.S.British landings in North Africa in the fall of 1942, Bob Murphy took on the name, identification papers and guise of Lieut. Colonel McGowan, U.S. Army. He flew secretly to London for talks with Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower, then to Washington to confer with President Roosevelt. A key Murphy recommendation to General Eisenhower: a top-level U.S. officer should be smuggled into North Africa to persuade friendly French leaders to support the Allied invasion. Ike agreed, selected Lieut...