Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nuclear fission used to be a subject upon which a writer could simply crank up and let loose, but no longer . . . Space flight is still good for a yarn, but already one university offers a course in theoretical astrogation...
...chill fog hung over Seattle's dark, hill-bordered Boeing Field, and ice glazed the runways. Seattle Air Charter, one of the U.S.'s brood of nonscheduled airlines, postponed the eastbound flight of its DC-3 for an hour, then two hours. The big commercial lines had canceled all flights. But the owner of the DC-3 had a big payload waiting impatiently for a ride-27 Yale students from the Northwest had chartered the plane for the trip back to New Haven after the Christmas holidays...
Finally at 10 o'clock the flight was called; the students called goodbye to waiting parents and girl friends, trooped aboard. The heavily loaded plane (normal load: 21 passengers) waited, engines turning, for half an hour. The fog lifted a little. Against the urgent advice of the control tower, the plane snarled down the runway, lifted off the concrete...
...unexplained postponement of the trial for the murder of George Polk by the Greek government forced his brother, William R. Polk '51, to shelve temporarily plans for his late December flight to Greece...
...Below minimum" flight conditions prevailed when the plane took off, Regional C.A.A. Administrator R. D. Bedinger charged yesterday. He said the pilot of the chartered ship had been warned twice against leaving...