Word: glider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, concealed radio set with a single earphone. But the Buck Rogers buffs might prefer a football type helmet, which the American Junior Aircraft Co. of Portland, Ore. displayed at the 46th annual American Toy Fair. It carried a tone transmitter (see cut) which controls the steering of a glider airplane by sonic vibrations. A steady sound tone makes it fly straight, interruptions turn it alternately right and left (price: $25). The 10,000 U.S. retail buyers attending the toy fair did so much early Christmas shopping that the Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A. reported that 1949's business...
...Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 70, British coal tycoon and onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: "Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...
...seven fliers and their rescuers (Lieut. Colonel Emil Beaudry and Lieut. Charles Blackwell*) were whisked off to a midtown hotel, which was to be their garrison for the next few days. As they entered the lobby a dark-haired woman bounded over to one of them, Glider Pilot Howard Halstead, handed him a piece of paper and wished him a happy New Year. The woman was his wife; the paper was a summons charging him with desertion. He shrugged her off, explained that he had divorced her and remarried...
...third rescue attempt the glider was safely loaded and picked up. It lifted 50 feet into the air before the towline snapped. A week later it,happened again with a new glider. Two more airmen were left stranded. By Christmas Day, the C-47 survivors had been down for 16 days, and the original seven-man group had swollen...
...operation, sent the carrier Saipan north from Norfolk with three Piasecki ("Sagging Sausage") helicopters, each capable of carrying eight passengers. The red-faced Air Force ordered up ski-equipped planes and called in famed Arctic flyer Colonel Bernt Balchen, who had commanded the Air Force's first successful glider rescue in Alaska fortnight...