Word: glider
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME (June 29) says that the Army will take men with 20-100 vision for glider pilot training. Information given us by the Army for use in recruiting gives eye requirement minimum as 20-40 without glasses, correctible...
...TIME'S statement and a similar one appearing in the June 20 Army & Navy Register were based on information from the U.S. Army Recruiting Service, First Corps Area, Boston and the First Corps Area was wrong. The minimum eye requirement for prospective glider pilots is still 20-40, correctible...
...plight was almost as desperate as when the German charged into the El Alamein funnel. He was still there, he was always dangerous, he was nearly intact. Moreover, he had a card up his sleeve, and it was sticking halfway out of his green gabardine cuff: parachute and glider troops concentrated in Crete, ready to help him by an assault from the rear...
Goal: to supply 20,000 reservists to the Navy, 6,500 instructors, an unspecified number of glider and liaison pilots to the Army. But the overmastering, overall fact about the U.S. airplane program is that the U.S. is woefully short of pilots-measured against planes-and will be woefully short for months to come...
...Heinz Co. (57 Varieties) is going into "large-scale" production of plastic-plywood airplane and glider parts. To this startling announcement the staid, publicity-shy, 73-year-old food processor flatly refused to add a single word. One leaked-out fact: the work will be done on pressure machines formerly used for canning...