Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first test flight at Saunders-Roe's plant at Cowes, the Hovercraft rose 15 in. above the concrete runway. Test Pilot Peter Lamb maneuvered it easily, using a standard aircraft control stick. To dramatize the low friction of its air cushion, Inventor Christopher Cockrell pushed the four-ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hovercraft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial. It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic...
...them all. The biggest U.S. producer of household drugs (Bayer Aspirin, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Drisdol vitamins, etc.) was going into the sewage-disposal business with a radical new process, developed by Sterling Engineer Frederick J. Zimmermann, which is cheaper and more efficient than current methods. With one pilot plant already set up in Norway, Sterling has contracts to build an $11.9 million disposal plant for the city of Chicago, a second $280,000 plant for Wheeling, W. Va. And it has hopes for many more: surveys show that nearly half the community sewer systems in the U.S. need...
...station wagon and driven to the airport for the trip to the Galveston hospital.* On the way, in his National Guard plane, Long once again erupted, demanded that the plane be turned back to Baton Rouge. Refused, he "busted" the accompanying Louisiana adjutant general to private, and "promoted" the pilot from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general. Still the pilot would not turn back, and Earl Long went to the white hospital room with strong, screened windows. He was a pathetic case.'So was the state he had governed so long, so badly...
...Airport and taxied to the customs shack in a remote corner of the sprawling field. Out stepped a 56-year-old grandfather. "I've got 30 gallons of gas left," announced Max Conrad, "and I'd like to trade that for a glass of water." For Veteran Pilot Conrad, it had been a long time between sips of water. Carrying only a supply of coffee and tea, he had flown an incredible 7,683 miles nonstop from Casablanca in a 250-h.p., single-engined aircraft, beating by some 700 miles the previous distance record for light planes...
...including seven West Pointers, who were the first to become marines upon graduation since the early 19th century. The Army gave 43 more graduates to the Air Force. The Air Force lost one man to the Marines, sent most of its new 2nd lieutenants (all qualified navigators) on to pilot training. Swapping hit the Navy hardest: 57 Annapolis graduates (including the No. 1 man) chose the Marines. 83 the Air Force, six the Army. As 10,000 Annapolis spectators laughed, the Army's Lieut. General James F. Collins swore in the ex-midshipmen, cracked nautically: "Welcome aboard...