Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Hank Myers. Without hesitation, President Truman got aboard the plane. The trip to Miami was made-without incident...
This decision, made last March, was not the first of its kind for Hank Myers, who would fly the President to Key West for a brief vacation this week. As a command pilot, Lieut. Colonel Henry Tift Myers, holder of a "Green Ticket"* in the Air Transport Command, has the authority to clear his plane to any destination under any flight plan he elects. As personal pilot for the President, Hank Myers' decisions are not always easy...
Routine Rain. On Christmas Day, 1945, President Truman wanted to visit his mother in Grandview, Mo. An all-night downpour of sleet, which had sheathed the Washington airport in ice, turned to murky rain by morning. Hank Myers studied the weather reports. He laid out a flight plan, made his decision. At 12:06, the President's plane, with Harry Truman aboard, lifted into the mist. Nearly six hours later, Myers cushioned the Sacred Cow to a landing at Kansas City airport. When newspapers called the flight foolhardy, Pilot Myers was amazed. "Routine," said...
Ideal Passenger. Hank Myers, a 39-year-old Georgian, got his wings from the Army Air Forces in 1931. He flew for commercial airlines until called to active duty with the A.T.C. in 1942. From the start, he was given the job of toting VIPs; his engaging, infectious self-confidence soothed the nerves of air-wary officials. His popularity as a pilot has allowed him little time to spend with his wife and young...
...Hank Myers considers his present boss the ideal air passenger. When someone recently suggested that it might be a good idea to replace Hank with a Missourian, the President replied with a grin, "Even if Hank were a Republican [being in the Army, he has no politics], I'd rather have a pilot who knows how to fly this plane than a Democrat who doesn...