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...ripe old age of 44, Air Force Colonel Robin Olds really should not be flying anything hotter than Charlie Brown's kite, but with four kills in his F-4C Phantom, he is the leading combat pilot of the Viet Nam air war (TIME, June 2). Now the Air Force has finally found a way to keep him down on the ground with the other old folks. The 1943 West Point graduate and World War II ace (twelve German planes) has been named commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, effective...
...Princes are like to heavenly bodies," Sir Francis Bacon once wrote, but who would ever think that the Earl of Snowdon would take him so literally. There was intrepid Tony, 37, hanging onto a 15-ft. by 12-ft. yellow kite and soaring 70 ft. over the surface of Bedfont Lake in Middlesex. Already an expert water skier, Lord Snowdon managed the tricky take-off on his first try, stayed aloft for ten gusty minutes. There was no word on when Princess Margaret would attempt a flyin, but Tony had their five-year-old son on water skis the next...
...Philadelphia, 1,500 subway riders stumbled through darkness from their stalled trains beneath the city where Benjamin Franklin started it all by attracting a bolt of lightning with kite and key. In Menlo Park, N.J., on the spot where Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb, an "eternal light" winked out for an instant before an emergency generator restored its glow...
High fliers and others welcome at the Graduate School of Design's annual Kite Flite on the Charles riverbank. Procession to river forms at 1 p.m. Saturday in Sever Quadrangle...
...planes as they crashed into walls, plunged beneath chairs or fluttered helplessly to the floor were eight judges, including a woman parachutist, the pilot of the Goodyear blimp, a senior researcher of Princeton's aerodynamics laboratory, and the owner of Manhattan's Go Fly A Kite store. Using stop watches, tape measures and esthetic expertise, the judges picked winners in four different categories: duration aloft, distance flown, aerobatics and origami (the ancient Japanese art of paper folding...