Word: hannifin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Swallow biplane circle and land at his hometown airfield in Boise, Idaho. It was the first plane he had ever seen close up. It was also the start of the first permanent scheduled airline service in the U.S. More than half a century later, TIME'S Jerry Hannifin finally realized his childhood dream by flying a restored Swallow. He has logged 2,550 hours in the air as a pilot, flying planes that ranged from a J-3 Cub to the Air Force's giant B-52G. An unabashed aerophile who has never let his FAA license expire...
...When Hannifin landed at TIME in 1946, he recalls, commercial aviation was still the domain of a few strong-willed and innovative men who ran their fledgling airlines with a fierce competitiveness. Among them was C.E. Woolman, who started Delta Air Lines with a pair of Huff-Daland crop-dusting airplanes in Georgia. And Captain Eddie Rickenbacker-Hannifin calls him "great, truly fearless and fascinatingly irascible"-who built Eastern Air Lines by flying DC-3's to remote East Coast outposts along what he called "Tobacco Road" routes. Alexander G. Hardy, former Senior Vice President of National Airlines, once...
...cover story, written by Associate Editor David B. Tinnin and researched by Sue Raffety and Sandye Wilson, shows clearly that the industry has made flying easier-so easy, in fact, that this summer many jets are flying at full capacity and airports are overcrowded. The airlines that Hannifin has covered for so long have grown into vast corporations; the executives he interviews these days are members of a new breed, more sophisticated and less rambunctious than their predecessors, perhaps, but as competitive. For Hannifin, the romance of air travel has not been lost. Says he: "There is still a grand...
...have little difficulty in making Cubans accept his African adventures. Among other things, the African policy provides a vent for the pent-up energies of young Cubans faced with a stagnating economy and limited employment prospects at home. On a recent visit to Havana, TIME Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin was told by a Cuban air force reservist: "I will be glad to help in Africa, to help our brothers finish off neocolonialism and racism." Others are less enthusiastic but too prudent to disagree. Said one university student: "I have friends who know that some Cubans have been killed over there...
After two days of searching, a low-flying joint U.S.-Canadian "sniffer" plane detected what Canadian National Defense Minister Barnett Danson called "an extremely dangerous" level of radiation. A U.S. intelligence official told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "Obviously, some part of the satellite survived the burnout to hit the ground...