Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essentials of the prosecution case were that Batista's bombers killed at least eight and injured 16 in 600 attacks. As evidence it submitted flight reports of the attacks signed by the pilots themselves...
...main strategy each season is to develop a squad of nine players who can all play good squash. If he happens to have a few men who can play excellent squash, so much the better, but it is balance which has made Barnaby's teams as consistently top-flight in squash as Bob kiphuth's Yale teams have been in swimming...
...practices this week, the Crimson's Koni Ulbrich clocked a 22.3 for the 50-yard freestyle. Should this top-flight form continue into the weekend, he too could become a challenger to Yale's Roger Anderson. Both Ulbrich and Hunter give the varsity strength at these distances...
...school ties from Eton (black and light blue). Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sported one at the Bolshoi Theater performance of the ballet Romeo and Juliet. So did one of the principal Foreign Office types he brought along. The third was worn by Guy Burgess, infamous for his 1951 flight from his Foreign Office job to Russia with Fellow Diplomat Donald MacLean...
...preliminary report, Federal Aviation Agency inspectors have concluded that the 7O7's trouble started with the automatic pilot, and in particular with the elevator trim tabs, which control the airplane's up-or down-or level-flight attitude. They also found breaches of operating procedure: i) the automatic flight recorder had no tape in it; 2) only one pilot was in the cockpit instead of two, as required on international flights; 3) the copilot, alone at the controls, had pushed his seat so far back that when the dive began, he could not reach them quickly...