Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flight of the Explorer...
...redeemed a thousand times by such writing as that which described Explorer's first flight [Feb. 10]. Rarely have I read a more exciting news story. I relished the beautiful choice of language and gripping imagery...
...schoolchildren to call him chacha (uncle), the same term of endearment they have been taught to call Nehru. Less interested in making loaded impressions, King Zahir, on a 15-day state visit, rushed busily between polo and field-hockey matches, a horse show, small-game shooting, a glider flight. A slated highlight of Zahir's trip: a tiger hunt, for which his striped target, previously located and fattened on goats and buffalo meat, unwarily awaited the King's bullet. Alighting at Palam Airport, Cabot Lodge was greeted as a long-lost friend by his oldtime U.N. wrangling...
...cabin in which a man might solo into outer space. Airman Farrell, 23, Manhattan-born son of a Wall Street accountant, was to make a seven-day simulated trip to the moon and back. Though he would not be exposed to three of the major hazards of space flight-acceleration, weightlessness and cosmic rays-the Air Force's space medicinemen wanted to study his reactions, both physical and emotional, to confinement* and fatigue...
JETS TO EUROPE will start flying this fall, months ahead of schedule. Production of 600 m.p.h., 124-passenger Boeing 707-120s is moving so iast that Pan American World Airways will put three planes in service from New York to London (flight time: six hours) and Paris perhaps as early as October...