Word: groundloop
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Take a look at your fellow prisoners next time you are stranded at O'Hare International Airport, waiting in numb misery for Groundloop Airlines to postpone your red-eye to Washington National. At least half the frequent sufferers -- blue-suited business plodders of both sexes -- will carry a megatech spy paperback. Not a detective story or a gothic bodice ripper but a 500-page thunderation about missile subs, perhaps, or rocket attacks on space stations...
...corner none too soon. Though they had proved they could drum up a lot of freight business-from 11 million ton-miles in 1946 to 26.4 million in 1949-they had trouble proving they could make it pay. Several times they had edged into the black only to groundloop into operating losses that totaled $2,440,000. If Earl Slick had not been able to tap his family's Texas oil millions, the airline probably would have cracked...
Baldwin chopped his throttles, shoved down on his brakes. But he had only 1,000 feet of pavement left and the 60,319-lb. plane kept going. He tried desperately to groundloop to the left. Instead, it would not turn. The plane plunged straight on, tires screeching, tore down 100 feet of fence at the end of the field, lifted a little and skimmed the earth like a skipped stone...
...bosses in his 25 years: the Post Office, Boeing, and, since 1927, United Air Lines. And the nearest thing to a serious accident in his 24,000 hours of flying time was when he got lost in a fog over New York Harbor in 1920, had to make a groundloop forced landing in a small clearing on Staten Island...
...face. Mexico City police hunting a stolen car stopped a sedan, apologized to Carol of Rumania. They had the wrong number. Passenger Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s nose was buried in a book when his plane ripped through a treetop, mangled the landing gear. At Philadelphia it did a groundloop. Declared Morgenthau: "I had no fears...