Word: midair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chore, last week had reason to agree: he had missed the week before. His specially equipped C-119 Flying Boxcar, patrolling a 12,000-sq.-mi. patch of the Pacific near Hawaii, had tried to snare Discoverer XIII's descending instrument capsule, coming from outer space, in midair. He almost caught it-but had to watch helplessly while the capsule fell to the ocean below, to be picked up by the U.S. Navy...
...month investigation, crash detectives from the Italian and U.S. governments,TWA, and Lockheed Aircraft, builder of the plane, had precious few clues to go on. "It was a mess," said one of the experts. "All we could tell at first was that the right wing had come off in midair.'' All servicing and takeoff procedures were normal; the pilot had reported no trouble by radio. At the wooded crash site, technicians gathered the twisted fragments and sorted them into the plane's component parts. Metallurgical tests showed that the fuel tanks had been subjected to terrific pressure...
Engineers from Lockheed last week were examining two other mysterious mishaps: the midair disintegration of two turboprop Electras-over Buffalo, Texas, and Tell City, Ind.-at a cost of 97 lives. In one of the biggest and most expensive (estimated cost to all participants, including F.A.A. and the airlines: $25 million) test programs in aviation history, Lockheed has placed an entire airplane in a huge mechanical jig, is literally shaking it to test its vibration tolerances. A whole wing section complete with engines has been taken off the production line, is being twisted and bent to destruction to check...
...forward, Rodgers darted out of nowhere, got his hands on the ball, and the Warriors' blis tering fast break was on. Dribbling faster than most Knicks could run, Rodgers had the defenders scrambling in on him as he drove for the basket and faked a shot. But, in midair, he flipped a pass behind his back to Teammate Tom Gola, who was so wide open that he merely stuffed down the basket. Minutes later, Rodgers scooped up a free ball with the smooth motion of a shortstop, fed a precise pass to the pivoting Wilt Chamberlain for another easy...
...their lives, fingers of suspicion pointed to Julian Frank, a heavily insured lawyer who died in one crash, and to Robert Spears, a convicted forger who may have died in the other. In each case, the investigations centered on a grim possibility: the premeditated bombing of both planes in midair...