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...company-paid tour of the Far East, a reward for outstanding sales. Suddenly witnesses on the ground saw the plane belch white, then black, smoke. To some it seemed to come apart in midair, pieces of wing and tail fluttering to earth like dry leaves. Presumed cause: either a mid-air explosion or disintegration as a result of turbulence from the very strong gusts of wind that prevailed around Mount Fuji that afternoon...
...loose assemblage of box kites driven by kamikaze impulses. The flyer in everyone's ointment is England's villainous Sir Percy (Terry-Thomas), who sends his man to saw away struts or detach landing gear on rival planes, a tactic that leads to many a droll mid-air crisis...
...BOLD MEN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Tales of specialists in courage, including Parachutist Rod Pack, who falls 10,600 ft. before a mid-air meeting with a fellow sky diver carrying an extra parachute...
...apart vertically, three to four miles laterally, a safe distance on anybody's scope. Yet distances can be deceptive in the air, and the investigators recognized the possibility that Carson might have swung his ship into a fatal fall because he believed a mid-air crash was imminent. The piston-driven plane was not equipped with the all but indestructible flight recorder, which indicates every yaw, pitch and twitch of the controls on U.S. jet airliners, and which probably would bear evidence of the cause of such an accident. No matter what the ocean bottom yields, the cause...
...planes that took off from the Dallas Naval Air Station last week looked like a pair of elephants doing a mid-air pas de deux. Their wings were tilted vertically, while their four turbo prop engines blasted so much prop wash straight downward that they kept pieces of trash flying in all directions around the field. Back and forth they rocked, 50 ft. above the ground, when suddenly they stopped and hovered in the 10-m.p.h. wind. Ungainly as they looked, the pair of XC-142As were the first large U.S. military transports to demonstrate a helicopter-like capability...