Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film opens during the Battle of Britain. Mitchell's former test pilot (David Niven), now a wing commander, tells the story of Mitchell's working life to a group of flyers as they wait for the order to "scramble" into action. Retiring, publicity-hating Reginald Mitchell was no flyer. He was in every sense an artist, whose struggles and triumphs had a solitary character. As a study and an appreciation of that kind of man and that kind of service-which usually lies forgotten for a generation-this film comes notably soon. Mitchell had to fight official inertia...
Alexander has been a pilot himself for more than 20 years now -rose to be Major in the 110th Observation Squadron, National Guard. But Alexander is a journalist first and a flyer second. He worked 15 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, before he came to TIME (he applied for his job here by flying an Army plane into New York in the morning, meeting TIME's editor at two o'clock, flying back to St. Louis that night...
...news items were closely linked. Mr. Trippe warmly advocated that the U.S. should aid British postwar commercial aviation. World War I Flyer Knollys became chairman of British Overseas Airways Corp. in a Government-sponsored reorganization designed to make Britain a major factor in postwar aviation...
Dream No Longer. To ATCmen such routes are no longer dreams. For months ATC has operated in the worst weather of the north subpolar country, has made operation routine. And no north-route flyer smiles as General George foretells the day when Americans may stop over on world trips in hotels on the Arctic icecaps, or make one-week round-trip business runs to Calcutta, Moscow or Chungking...
...Andrews was not a onesided air general; he held that blockade and attrition by all weapons offered the sure way to bring the Axis down. But flying was his great passion. He had about 6,000 hours on Army planes, and was an expert pilot even at 59. A flyer who knew him remarked, after hearing of the crash: "I'll bet Andy is bitching right now because he didn't take over that landing himself." And all the General's friends knew he had been ready for something like this a long time ago; he often...