Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Post Office Department celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first airmail flight-a deed of derring-do by an Army pilot who, on May 15, 1918, flew 144 lbs. of mail 218 miles from New York to Washington in a World War I "Jenny." On the anniversary date, two jet planes flew eight ounces over the same route. Time: 27½ minutes...
...cockpit of a big modern airliner is a nightmare of instruments, switches, knobs, push buttons and warning lights. They crowd for attention in front of the pilot and copilot. They encrust the walls, drip from the roof like stalactites and overflow into the cubbyhole where the flight engineer sits. On a Boeing Strato-liner, there are 598 gadgets to watch. The three-man crew must know what each one is, where it is, and how to use it instantly. In an emergency, a few seconds of fumbling may mean a crash...
Training by actual flight is expensive (over $500 an hour for a four-engine airliner), and not too satisfactory, either (as one airline spokesman put it delicately: "We hesitate to institute disaster conditions in a real, $1,500,000 airplane...
...Hilarius is a trim 23 foot job, and according to Smart, is one of the fastest hulls in the country, costing a cool $2, 250. His father is no stranger to top flight racing, having brought his boat "Melody" in fourth in the 1942 World Championship Star meeting. He also holds the Bacardi Cup for a victory in Havana...
...Sainted Sisters (Paramount) are daintily tough Veronica Lake and delicious Joan Caulfield. In flight from the New York police (circa 1895), they stop off for a con girls' holiday in a little town in Maine. They hole up with Barry Fitzgerald, the solidest down-Easter this side of Galway, and get busy fleecing the yokels...