Word: flier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground in Idaho. Less than a week later another boy, with ice on his wings, fell in Ohio. Next day an engine failed over Long Island Sound: one drowned, two injured. At Cheyenne two died when a spitting motor sent a plane into a spin after the takeoff. Another flier broke his neck in an Ohio snowstorm. Engine failure killed a pilot in a Daytona Beach takeoff. Eight days later another plane went into a spin at Cheyenne. Bad weather crashed a flier in Iowa; a pilot, lost in a thick Pennsylvania fog, jumped at too low an altitude...
...British wind up was its engine: a 3,000-h.p. monster capable of lifting the fighter nearly to 40,000 feet. Since in air battle the plane on top always has an advantage, the "Meph" is a formidable opponent. The British talked vaguely about a super-high-flier of their own, but did not say that it was yet ready for action...
...NAZI FLIER-Gottfried Leske-Dial...
What is the Nazi airman like who, in a flash of TNT and the space of a second, without seeing you or being seen, blows to pieces your children, your home, your life? This week I Was a Nazi Flier claimed to tell. The book purported to be the diary of pseudonymous Gottfried Leske, flight sergeant in the Luftwaffe, who took part in the great Blitz on London, Birmingham, Coventry, is now a prisoner of war in Canada...
...developing the suits, a Flying Fortress crew last winter flew 10,000 feet up over Alaska in -30° weather, dressed only in long woolen underwear through which electrical coils were woven. The new suits are lighter and cheaper than the sheepskin garments now used, and they leave a flier nimbler at his controls and guns. Heat can be adjusted for outside temperatures from 70° to -60°, can be increased to protect injured fliers from shock and pneumonia. General Electric analyzed the electrically heated uniform of a German flier shot down over England, found it so inefficient...