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...Kennedy likes to think of himself as Ray the Shark, Senior Editor Edward Hughes has at times been referred to as Ed the Eagle. A licensed pilot, he is a dedicated weekend flyer. It was Hughes who inspired and helped report our recent story [July 7] on the fad of crossing the Atlantic in small aircraft. Flying as copilot with a professional who was ferrying a twin-engined Piper Aztec from Boston to Geneva, Hughes crossed in three days of which twenty hours were actual flying time. There were stops for fueling in Gander, a haircut in Reykjavik, and golf...
Died. William M. Fechteler, 71, four-star admiral, an old-fashioned "black-shoe" (in Navy talk, a pure sailor as opposed to a brown-shoe, or flyer) who learned his profession aboard destroyers and battleships, in World War II led amphibious assaults on New Guinea and the Philippines, in 1951 was named Chief of Naval Operations during the Korean War buildup, then took over as Commander in Chief of Allied Forces in Southern Europe until his retirement in 1956; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
From the start, the legend was slightly askew. Lindbergh was no Flying Fool. Even at 25, he was probably the best knockabout flyer in the U.S. He was chief pilot (of three) for a tiny airline with a newly awarded contract to fly airmail between St. Louis and Chicago. Four times, lost in fog, he had been forced to ditch his plane and jump for his life. Lindbergh had left the University of Wisconsin midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying, bought his first plane (for $500) a year later, and qualified as a pilot...
Carrying the Las Vegas Show are 125 U.S. channels. In many instances, they are taking a United flyer because the program provides them with free competition against Carson and Bishop just when old movies are scarce and expensive...
Down-Under Glider. The also-flowns were as notable as the winners. One contestant sent in a dollar bill folded into a glider with the explanation: "It goes fast." There was a flying-saucerlike "Frisbee Flyer"-two paper plates and an infinitesimal folded fleck of foil only one-eighth of an inch long by one-sixteenth of an inch wide-made, appropriately, by Aerospace Corp.'s Space