Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jet Age is eight years old, and its high white contrails and graceful, swept-wing planes are familiar sights from the most cosmopolitan cities to the farthest provinces of the globe. Flight has grown into an absolute essential for mobile, modern man. By occasional tourist and veteran traveler, the big aircraft are recognized as the most comfortable, convenient means of long-distance travel. Yet hardly a passenger escapes entirely from an ancient skepticism, a lurking suspicion that manned flight is somehow unnatural and inherently dangerous. The hazards are always magnified. Just as the Sunday driver tends to minimize the difficulties...
...experienced pilots have been known to make just such errors. Example: the St. Louis crash that killed Astronauts Elliott See and Charles Bassett. Pilot See, having missed his first pass at the runway, told the tower that he planned a second instrument-landing approach in his T-38 jet trainer. He inexplicably continued to fly a visual pattern and made a wide turn just below the overcast, ran into a patch of fog, apparently lost orientation, slammed a building-and just barely missed demolishing the room where all the space capsules for the next four Gemini flights were stored...
Traffic-handling techniques on the ground have lagged 20 years behind today's planes, but there is also need for more modern equipment on the jets themselves. That equipment is on the way. Sperry Rand Corp. is developing an inertial-navigation system for Pan Am so that pilots soon will be able to know exactly where they are at all times-without any visual reference to ground or water. Airlines are experimenting with lasers and other devices to spot the dreaded "CAT" (clear-air turbulence), which may have torn the tail off a BOAC jet near Mount Fuji...
...relations" with "friend" and "ally" America, would "not be a party to any scheme that will injure the United States." There had been no negotiations on military assistance from Peking, Bhutto asserted. Then he went on to belittle the handful of Chinese-supplied T-59 tanks and MIG-19 jet fighters featured in a military parade the previous week as "a few deliveries from a new source...
...bright students (average IQ is 118) jam the tiny film center after school to view films on their own. They have also been permitted to take projectors and films home on weekends, leading entire families-even neighborhoods-to turn off Gunsmoke and watch movies on the operation of jet aircraft, modern life of Eskimos, human anatomy, basic principles of electricity. Despite all the accent on viewing, students are not bored when they turn to books. The films arouse the children's interests, say the teachers, and broaden their vocabulary. Circulation in the school's 12,000-volume library...