Word: flyering
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...flyer named Pokryshkin roared head on at a slim-bodied Junkers, shot upward, swerved right, then banked sharply, with his guns blazing. The German bomber fluttered down, trailing smoke. At a Red Air Force headquarters, a 35th digit was marked against the name of Major Alexander Pokryshkin. Across the breadth of Russia, men & women grinned and muttered: "Molodets paren"-atta boy. For to them, Alexander Pokryshkin is one of the war's top air heroes...
...whatever that is"-jitters, insomnia, loss of confidence and weight. One tense veteran of 39 missions was a hard nut to crack until the flight surgeon invited him out on a double date with two sisters who had a pilot brother. On finding the girls understood his language, the flyer began to talk about his combat experience, about seeing his friends crack up. After that he went back to the center, got three good nights' sleep, played 18 holes of golf the fourth day. Then he told the flight surgeon he wanted to go back to duty...
Bert Acosta, 50, famed transatlantic flyer of 1927, was arrested for sleeping in a Bronx subway station. Charged with disorderly conduct, he got a suspended sentence when he pleaded guilty...
...them, Washington rumor said, put their best hatchet men to work to kill it. But stubborn Mr. Kaiser somehow salvaged a small Government contract from the battle. Turned down everywhere in the industry, he promptly went to work with lanky Howard Robard Hughes, movie maker, oilman, round-the-world flyer and aeronautical engineer. They planned to turn out three super-colossal planes of Hughes's own design...
Last week, the hatchet work was revived; Shipbuilder Kaiser and Flyer Hughes stormed into Washington. They had good reason: WPB was casting a cold and fishy eye on the three-plane contract, had a good mind to cancel...