Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Average age of the students is close to 37. Attending class at night, they can earn only about 15 credit hours a year (half the normal rate), and the consequences of cutting class are clear. One jet pilot, forced to eject over Newfoundland, landed in bush so wild that a helicopter had to haul him out. All he could think of was getting back for his class. He made it. "Our students may not all be brilliant," says Dean Ehrensberger, "but they sure are motivated...
...Pilot Projects in Action...
...pilot project including representatives of four religions has been set up this Fall. A Brahmin Hindu from India, a Burmese Buddhist who has lectured at the New International Center of Buddhistic Studies, a Pakistani Buddhist monk, and an American Christian participate in the program...
...This pilot program has proved the value of students living together," Slater commented. Using a house at 38 Huron Ave., the four scholars, plus a graduate of the a Divinity School, have held several informal discussions on religion...
Each company pays Flight Safety $750 per pilot for the first year's instruction, $600 for each additional year's refresher course. Ueltschi estimates that Flight Safety's charges are one-tenth of what it would cost a company to maintain sufficient instructors, equipment and flight procedures. In addition, the pilots put in time (cost to the companies: $50 an hour) in a twin-engine translator and a just purchased Convair 340-440 simulator that can simulate every possible flight condition from ice to fire to mechanical malfunction. "There is not a pilot anywhere we could...