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...likely to be a penguin? Last week non-airmen could find the answer to that question (no) in a special 16,500-word dictionary of fly-talk put out by the Air University. The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet, raunchy for sloppy, zorch for excellent); it also uses ordinary words in some peculiar ways. Samples...
...Force Base at California's Muroc Dry Lake when the husky, dark-browed test pilot chugged up to the flight line in a battered model A Ford coupe. Lieut. Colonel Frank K. Everest Jr., 35, wiggled into his girdle-tight high-altitude suit, picked up his crash helmet and headed for the runway where a four-engined B50 waited. Clamped tight to the B-50's fat belly was "Pete" Everest's aircraft-a sleek, needle-nosed little job with "Bell X2" painted on its sides...
Pilot Everest climbed aboard the B-50, waved to the waiting crew, sat down behind the pilots. Engines rumbling, then roaring, the B50 gathered speed, rose into the brightening sky. Everest waited until the B50 had labored to 30,000 ft., snugged down helmet and oxygen mask for the last time, then walked aft and let himself down into the cockpit of the silent...
...Army displayed last week a new combat radio that will let G.I.s talk through their helmets. Using transistors instead of vacuum tubes, the radio is small enough to be built to fit into a soldier's helmet. It was developed by the Signal Corps, is designed with a normally short range so that squad members can exchange information without fear of eavesdropping by the enemy. But with a "man-from-Mars" antenna attached on top of the helmet, soldiers can talk to, and receive orders from, command posts more than a mile away...
...identity and continuity is CBS News Commentator Charles Collingwood, a suave guide who, in the course of his duties, has wrestled with a loft. alligator, struggled with an 18-ft. anaconda, plunged into the Atlantic in January, and urbanely commented on under sea matters through a diver's helmet 30 ft. below the surface of the Pacific. Collingwood once also gave his audience an authentic South American recipe, with step-by-step illustrations, on how to shrink a human head. An actual shrunken head was, of course, in camera range during the show...