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Unique Talent. Minnesota-born Ed Rawlings was a good pilot long before he was a management man. He got his wings in 1930, that year won the Distinguished Flying Cross for his part in the rescue of an air crew that crashed off the Hawaiian Islands. He pulled a rip cord twice to save his neck: in 1932 he bailed out of his burning biplane at 500 ft., and in 1940 he parachuted from a storm-battered fighter. In 1954, as a three-star general, he won the Soldier's Medal for helping to save the pilot...
...Pilot Rawlings early began to show a unique talent in the management skills that the Air Corps needed more than pilot's deeds. In 1939, after a tour in the administrative branch in Materiel, he took a master's degree (cum laude) at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, worked on Air Force logistics in World War II, later set up the division responsible for postwar production cutbacks and contract terminations. By 1946 he was the Air Force's first comptroller; he took command of the Air Materiel Command...
...that produced the spectacular northern lights the evening of the tenth also permitted them to pick up BBC telecasts from London. A ham radio operator in Rhode Island with a normal range of fifty miles was startled to pick up a station from Texas, but a Trans World Airlines pilot had to fly thousands of miles over the North Pole without radio contact anywhere. As soon as the Sun set on the evening of the tenth, aurorae were seen around the world, even in some latitudes where they had not appeared within memory. The display was so bright that...
...Force General Nathan F. Twining, 61, old bomber pilot, completing his first two-year term as Joint Chiefs' chairman, has turned down tempting offers from private industry, will probably be named by President Eisenhower for a second term...
...comparatively few airplanes or stations have the full distance-measuring equipment. But a navigator or pilot can get a fix by tuning in two stations and getting his bearing from each. His position is the point where the two bearing lines cross on the chart. VOR/DMET uses very high frequency radio waves, which are seldom bothered by static from thunderstorms. Disadvantage is that high frequency waves are line-of-sight (like those used for TV), and therefore stop at the horizon. Airplanes flying above 20,000 ft. can detect them 200 miles away. But for low-flying airplanes and helicopters...