Word: overcast
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...from the Capitol steps to the tens of thousands before him and into the TV screens of millions. Moments before, President Eisenhower had raised his hand before Chief Justice Earl Warren to take his public oath of office beneath clear blue skies that had displaced an early grey overcast, his breath making tracks in the cold...
...other tricks: when a man breathes its winter air, he not only can see but hear his breath, for as the frozen moisture drifts back across his face, its ice crystals break against his ears with the tinkling of hundreds of tiny bells. When the uncertain light of an overcast day is trapped beneath the clouds above and the snow below, everything between fills with a thick and milky film, devoid of feature or contrast. This is a whiteout, and in it, pilots may become dizzy and nauseated as they grope blindly for a surface which can vanish even...
Gunning along at 21,000 feet through the overcast skies above the Grand Can yon, a T.W.A. Constellation collided with a United Airlines DC-7 one morning last summer, sending 128 people plunging to their deaths in the worst commercialairline disaster in U.S. aviation history (TIME, July 9). To ensure greater safety in the nation's crowded skies, the Civil Aeronautics Administration this week ordered 23 long-range radars designed to give controllers a picture of aircraft from 15,000 to 70,000 feet in virtually all the U.S. air space...
...lying clouds and a cold rain darkened the field, but by the time the first high whine of the Vulcan's Olympus engines could be heard above the overcast, the clouds had lifted enough to permit a safe landing by Ground Controlled Approach, the procedure by which operators "talk" a plane down onto a field. As London's GCA operator went to work, a respectful crowd of high-ranking airmen and their wives stood by to greet the Vulcan's distinguished crew of war heroes. The pilot was Squadron Leader Donald Howard, D.F.C., and his copilot...
...When, at 9:15 a.m., T.W.A.'s Captain Jack S. Gandy, 42, asked CAA for permission to fly his Constellation at 21,000 ft. instead of his assigned 19,000 ft., CAA had refused. But CAA granted Captain Gandy permission to fly at 1,000 ft. above the overcast, and when−as he reported−this turned out to be 21,000 ft., he was warned routinely that another plane was cruising near him. Moreover, according to CAA rules, pilots assigned "on top," as Gandy was, are charged with the primary responsibility for observing and detecting other aircraft...