Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were all kinds of bugs along the way. While assembling the new installation, the technicians learned that two vital parts- magnetic storage elements-were missing. Striker found that they would have to be specially manufactured, ordered them and, fortnight ago, with the two missing links in his hand luggage, flew out of New York for Saigon. Last week, as the new circuit went to work, copy from our Saigon bureau moved to New York in a matter of minutes. Formerly it took as long as twelve hours...
...doctors were delighted. "It was far, far better than anything we could have expected," said Berry, who flew from Houston to the Wasp. "If I were any happier today, I think I'd be flying around the room." Berry said the flight promised "to knock down an awful lot of straw men. We had been told that we would have an unconscious astronaut after four days of weightlessness. Well, they're not. We were told that the astronaut would experience vertigo, disorientation when he stepped out of that spaceship. We hit that one over the head...
...hours after the astronauts' press conference, President Johnson flew down to Houston and came up with the surprise he had promised the astronauts earlier, when he congratulated them by phone after their arrival aboard the Wasp. "I've been saving some little something for you," said the President at that time. Now, standing in front of Houston's Mission Control Center, he told Air Force Majors McDivitt and White that he was nominating them for promotions to lieutenant colonel. He also said he was nominating Gemini 3 Command Pilot Gus Grissom, who helped guide Gemini 4 from...
...83rd is Hanoi-born Major Luu Kim Cuong, at 32 a 13-year veteran of Viet Nam's long war, and a confidant of Ky's. Cuong has logged more than 8,500 flying hours, taught himself to fly the Skyraider in a mere three days. He flew behind Ky in the first raid on North Viet Nam last February, returned with six holes in his plane. "I never look at the ground fire," he says. "If you do, you lose the target. And, to be truthful, I do not like to think about ground fire...
...make its own lightning, without "thunderclouds, a team of U.S. and Icelandic scientists studied the volcano that is forming the new island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland. In Science, they report that they rode a fishing boat to within 250 yds. of the roaring vent, and flew in an airplane close to the hot, black plume. Once they saw rocks a foot in diameter tossed above their plane. They escaped injury and satisfied their curiosity: volcanoes do manufacture lightning...