Word: flyaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flustered Royal Australian Air Force was caught with its Sabre jets unarmed, many of its pilots away. A Meteor was sent up, but its guns jammed. From a Wirraway training plane, a squadron leader shot at the runaway with a hand machine gun, but missed. At one point the flyaway plane was being pursued by six angry but ineffectual military planes. The Royal Australian Navy's fleet air arm, bitter rival of the R.A.A.F., then sent up a couple of piston-engined Sea Fury fighters, piloted by British veterans. Seven miles out to sea, Lieut. Peter McNay gave...
Already available to TACair are such items as "flyaway kits"-giant parcels containing enough spare aircraft parts to maintain a squadron for a month or more...
...Flyaway Day. When SAC moved from a field outside Washington to Offutt, next-door Omaha was tingling with anticipation of the big armadas to come. "What will this mean to Omaha?" asked a reporter as LeMay arrived on the scene. "It doesn't mean a damn thing to Omaha, and it doesn't mean a damn thing to me," he growled...
...Emmett O'Donnell, boss of the Fifteenth at March Field. For two days, while SAC was in the dark on Washington's plans, the staff pored over their own top-secret intelligence on North Korean targets. "Rosie" O'Donnell's B-29s were loaded with flyaway kits, holding enough spare engines and parts to keep them flying for 30 days until normal supply lines could be set up wherever they might...