Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coffee & Flags. But with the cinder out of its eye, the camera picked up the impressive overhead flight of B-36 bombers, Flying Boxcars, jet-propelled fighters. Then came the parade with massed flags and flashing-legged columns of infantry, floats, Sousa rhythms of military bands, and, at the tail end, a circus calliope. The sunflash from the headlamps of the motorcycle escort made the TV image blur and throb. The hat-waving crowd cheered, torn paper drifted across the screen, and the cameras caught the 32nd President of the U.S. sipping coffee as the parade rolled...
...controls T.W.A., the third of the three U.S. flag lines flying the North Atlantic. Damon had been an admirer of Howard Hughes since he had produced Hell's Angels, but had not met him until 1938 when Hughes was getting ready for his four-day, round-the-world flight. As the dashing, disheveled Hughes puttered around his plane, Damon, like any awed autograph hound, rushed up and introduced himself. They had since become friends. Said Damon: "I am a great admirer of Howard Hughes." Said Hughes: "Mr. Damon's reputation ... is such that any airline would be fortunate...
...feet as we talked. She told me she was from Lehnin and her father & mother were waiting in the dark hall outside. Herr Arnold finally appeared-a hunchback under five feet tall. His brown, leathery face pursed up with a wry grin as he explained his prosaic cause for flight. He had idly signed a petition for the re-election of the local mayor. After a new mayor was elected, Arnold had been evicted by the police, on various grounds, from seven apartments in the last few months. Finally he decided they had better move for good. Life under...
...would be idle to pin labels on these people, call them "democrats." They are no more than families in flight. Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...
Aircraft designers have studied the flight of birds only superficially. But with slide rule and logarithm they have come close, independently, to the mechanisms that keep the bird on the wing. The masters of machines that can outfly any bird for speed or distance must admit that a bird is, in a structural sense, a small and amazingly efficient living airplane. John H. Storer explains all this in a new book, The Flight of Birds (Cranbrook Institute of Science...