Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emergency procedures into motion. A score of fire trucks, dozens of ambulances and police cars, all with their red lights flashing, took up their stations along Runway 13 (pointing 130° southeast), toward the end of its 11,200-ft. stretch. Orbiting above the field, Flight 102's Pilot Edward Sommers, 44, kept checking with the tower for wind direction and the state of preparations for his landing. (Meanwhile, stewardesses served dinner to the remarkably hungry passengers.) At Pilot Sommers' request, Idlewild operations sent out fire trucks to lay down a 4-in. pillow of foam...
...plane swung above in wide circles, jettisoning some of its heavy takeoff (104,000 Ibs.) fuel load and burning up most of the rest at low altitude, waiting for foaming operations to be completed. The emergency vehicles on the field could hear the calm spurts of dialogue between Pilot Sommers and the control tower...
...nearly four hours after Pilot Sommers took off, he came in, expertly putting down most of the plane's weight on its good right gear. As the 707 eased over on the left, scraping the damaged strut on the concrete runway, huge sheets of sparks flashed into the air, until at last the plane rolled safely to a stop, a good 200 feet short of the foam carpet. At least 1,000 spectators and airport employees surged forward, despite the obvious hazard of leaking fuel and fire. A baby in the crowd whimpered; her mother snapped: "Shut...
...Western airmen a World War I formation, long since discarded, known as the Lufbery circle, after Major Raoul Lufbery, U.S. pilot in France's Lafayette Escadrille...
Divorced. By Deborah Kerr, 37, Scottish-born cinemactress (From Here to Eternity): Anthony Bartley, 40, British TV producer, one of the fighter-pilot heroes of the Battle of Britain; after 14 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...