Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a grin, Lieut. Don Fraasa of Cincinnati extracted a small Stars and Stripes from the sleeve pocket of his flight suit. "We show the flag," he said. "Hope it scares them...
...College itself if the HSA extends its projects to conflict with other student-run organizations. Agencies within the HSA, such as the Eliot Grill and the refreshment agency, compete with each other; under existing conditions, however, it would be practically impossible for a student to organize a charter flight without HSA sanction. Europe by Air monopolizes the field. The division between competition and supplementation is delicate and when the HSA treads heavily injustice could result...
GOLD OUTFLOW from U.S. in 1958 has topped $1.76 billion, more than any full-year drop in nation's history. Movement is caused by recent recession, slump in exports, investors' flight from dollar...
Scared Silly. As the pressure built up, Idlewild gave grudging ground at week's end. It granted a 30-day extension to Pan Am to continue nonpassenger 707 flight tests between New York and Puerto Rico, allowing night flights and lifting the plane's weight restrictions from 190,000 Ibs. to the fully loaded capacity of 247,000 Ibs. But planes will still be required to follow strict flight and climb patterns that minimize annoyance to householders, because the Authority, said one airman, is still "scared silly" by its lawyers' warnings of possible householders' damage suits...
...firms making computers, printed circuits, servomechanisms, communications and navigation equipment. When Litton bought Digital Controls Systems Inc. in 1954, it also got brilliant Research Scientist George Steele; Steele heads Litton's work on lightweight computers that make up to 15,000 calculations per second for a plane in flight. Litton also lured other top brains away from big companies by granting stock options. Dr. Henry Singleton left North American Aviation for Litton, where in three years he produced the answer to one of the Pentagon's toughest problems: an inertial guidance system that is light enough...