Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Havana to Madrid. It was 11:15 Pm. Captain Don Fernando Bengoa, 37, was at the controls. Also aboard was Captain Fernando Rein-Loring, 53, the airline's chief pilot. As the Pinta let down for the landing, the right wheel of the tricycle landing gear stuck. Captain Rein-Loring and Pilot Bengoa tried unsuccessfully to dislodge it with the emergency hand pump. Captain Bengoa made several low passes over the field so the ground crew could inspect the wheel by searchlight. Then the Spanish flyers took the plane upstairs to decide what...
Meanwhile, Captain Rein-Loring and Pilot Bengoa were too busy to be nervous. The Bermuda airport had called Lockheed, the plane's manufacturer, in Manhattan and via short-wave radio put a landing-gear specialist in touch with the Constellation. He advised the pilot to try a more powerful auxiliary system built into the gear for just such emergencies; but it only broke a hydraulic line and made a normal landing out of the question. Captain Rein-Loring decided that the plane would have to be landed on its belly...
...plant to turn in some test-flight reports. Just as Smith headed toward his battered Mercury to go home, Dispatcher Bob Gallahue asked him to flight-test a new F-100A jet fighter so that it could be delivered to the Air Force. Pilot Smith put on his flying gear, got into the cockpit, checked instruments and controls. He noticed that the fore-and-aft stick movement, which raises or lowers the nose of the aircraft in flight, was slightly stiff, but he thought nothing of it at the time...
After 32 distinguished years in the Army, Major General William F. Dean, 56, top-ranking hero of the Korean war and for three grisly years a prisoner of the Chinese Reds, packed his military gear for retirement this week. Highlight of Medal-of-Honorman Dean's last parade at San Francisco's famed Presidio: the award of a combat infantryman's badge, which he missed...
Tense Hands & Phone Call. Airman Townsend, slim, wavy-haired fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, was the first to get to London. Looking fit and 41, he arrived with his Nile green Renault sedan on a Bristol cargo plane at Lydd airport, packed his gear and his gentleman-jockey's tack into the back seat, and drove straight to the Lowndes Square home of Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station...