Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's LaGuardia Airport one night last week, 68 passengers stirred awake aboard American Airlines' big orange, blue and aluminum Flagship New York, dutifully obeyed the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign. The brand-new four-engine turboprop Electra had more than lived up to its billing: normal flight time from Chicago at the Electra's 400-m.p.h. cruising speed had been sliced a third. And the big aircraft had winged 713 miles eastward through almost steady rain at 21,000 ft. with barely a bump...
...their planes with the 5,000-ft. runway, lacked the glide-slope signal and the brilliant neon approach lights of instrument runway 4. Routinely. DeWitt flew over runway 22's checkpoint three miles away in The Bronx, lined himself up with the strip, acknowledged landing clearance with his flight number: "320." The message was his last...
Lynch inched forward to the cockpit from the lounge, helped the copilot and flight engineer override the automatic pilot and pull the plane out at 6,000 ft. After an emergency landing at Gander, the plane showed no damage from the dive beyond a cracked wing-splice plate; investigators guessed that sudden de-icing of the 707's trimmed elevators had sent the jet's nose down. Favorite statistic of survivors: just before the 29,000-ft. descent, Captain Lynch had climbed from 28,000 ft. to 35,000 ft. to get over a storm...
...PILOT PAY of $33,000 a year will go to jet captains flying maximum of 85 hours a month for Pan American World Airways, up from current ceiling of $25,000 for DC-7C skipper. New Pan Am contract also puts three pilots plus flight engineer in jets...
...home with his burly, 6-ft. 2-in. frame folded behind an executive desk or behind the stick of a plane or draftsman's board. He helped develop some of the planes and practices that became standard among world airlines. With new planes, T.W.A. cut the transcontinental flight time from 48 hours to 16, and at 30, Jack Frye was elected the line's president...