Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protests. Its point made, the U.S. did a backdown of a sort, too. The Pentagon plan was to establish the pattern with several flights above 10,000 ft. But Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd hove into his Washington meeting with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter heatedly protesting that the flights might cause dangerous incidents in the touchy Berlin situation.* Although West Germany, France and Britain (but apparently not Lloyd) had been duly notified in advance of the 25,000-ft. flight, Herter promised to call off further flights until the two could sit down and talk...
...London's Daily Mirror was a good deal less diplomatic in its anger over the Hercules flight and the U.S. military in general. "A new menace!" it cried. "The loudmouthed American generals . . . The peoples of the West-and of Russia and her satellites-are expected to believe that General Lauris Norstad (American general), General Nathan Twining (American general), General Thomas D. White (American general) are the only men who matter." A speech by NATO Commander Norstad opposing a thin-out of Western forces in Europe was called "a threat to the hopes of world peace." The comments before congressional...
While the Italians leaked their firm decision to a semi-official news agency, the missile they will get, the Army-designed Jupiter, was again proving its bright new reputation for reliability. In a summery twilight test-firing, Jupiter blasted aloft on its tenth successful flight (out of 15 tries, only one blowup), its third flight since Chrysler Corp. started supplying birds off its regular assembly line...
...clerk pointed out that the flight was already overbooked. Colonel Platt knew-but the clerk did not-that two inbound planes from Korea were delayed and that at least eight passengers on them were going to miss their connections with the Pacific Express. Irritably, Platt changed his request to an order. Panicky, the MATS men took an easy out, bumped seven emergency-furlough passengers-one lieutenant and six enlisted men-off the Pacific Express passenger list to make way for the colonel, his family and luggage. When some of the victims tried to plead their emergency problems-a dead...
...slipstream knifing through the battered B-47 cockpit was bitterly convincing. Obie's agony as he tried to open his eyes against the blinding force was painfully evident. And if old airmen winced when the flight control officer yammered and yelled into the tower microphone, broke in on the G.C.A. operator in hammy confusion, the G.C.A. operator himself was superbly true to life. Calm, careful, his every tone reassuring and reliable, he was just the man to bring a pilot home.* The true Lieut. Obenauf was surely willing to overlook the utterly silly last lines that the show...