Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general direction of the jet stream is from west to east; jetliners flying westward will usually pick their courses and altitudes to avoid it. But sometimes the jet stream or the current associated with it loops into a westerly direction. When the charts reveal such a shift, an alert pilot might get a jet stream assist both coming and going...
...cleared in court last week for the pilots of American Airlines to strike-if they want. A New York federal judge lifted a restraining order that had prevented a walkout by the pilots, who want higher pay and shorter hours to fly American's new jets, insist that the third man in the cockpit be a pilot. The pilots announced that they would not walk out immediately, promised to give the public sufficient warning. One hopeful sign that the strike might be averted: the resumption of negotiations between American and the Air Line Pilots Association in Chicago...
Since many future Air Force Academy graduates will not pilot planes, cadet height and weight maximums and vision minimums need not be those of jet jockeys. Last week the academy cheered up its football and basketball coaches, announced new limits: height up from 6 ft. 4 in. to 6 ft. 6 in. (same as West Point and Annapolis); weight, in proportion to height, up from 216 to 239 lbs. (same as West Point; 4 Ibs. heavier than Annapolis maximum). New vision requirements call for 20/50 sight in each eye, correctible to 20/20, permit some depth-and color-perception defects...
Commander of it all is Louisiana-born Major General David Wade, Atlas-sized (6 ft. 4 in., 210 lbs.) command pilot (7,000 hours) who served (1956-57) as SAC chief of staff to the father of alert deterrence, Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay. Wade's command includes the new SAC 704th Strategic Missile Wing at Vandenberg and two Jupiter squadrons now at Huntsville, Ala. In SAC's businesslike way, Wade now enforces "maximum security" on the base, will soon reinforce his armed guards with sentry dogs...
...Demand. The failure is not confined to American and its pilots. It is industrywide. Last week even the stewardesses at little Lake Central Airlines (2,281 route miles in the Midwest) were striking for higher pay. (But this time the pilots, who had helped organize the stewardesses, walked through their picket line and kept flying; the pilots also own stock in the line.) Pan American World Airways also faces union trouble. Its A.L.P.A. pilots want up to $45,000 a year jet pay, have already forced a slowdown in jet schedules to Europe because they refuse to fly without...