Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month-old Iven C. Kincheloe III] for appointment as a cadet in the U.S.A.F. Academy at Colorado Springs, Colo. His rich inheritance stems from a father whose superb technical skill and selfless dedication to country were demonstrated in outstanding fashion in his perilous duties as an experimental flight test pilot...
...letter-was written, as the President said, to honor the memory of Iven Kincheloe, a Korean war ace (ten kills) who became a famed test pilot. In 1956 he flew an experimental Bell X-2 to a record-breaking 126,000 ft. Last summer (two weeks before his second child, a girl, was born), during preparations for flying the first manned U.S. space plane, the X-15, blond, handsome Iven Kincheloe, 30, died in an F-IO4 crash. His last words, radioed to the control tower at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.: "Edwards, Mayday seven seven two-bailing...
...Winds from the southwest gathered speed, rose to 40, 50, then 60 m.p.h. The Bradley beat its way through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
Veteran Test Pilot Robert M. Stanley of the Stanley Aviation Corp. (makers of airplane subassemblies) tackled the easy end of the problem: how to get the crew down to earth alive if their vehicle misbehaves on launching or while it is still in the atmosphere. The men will be in the nose of the ship, perched above a vast amount of explosive, corrosive, poisonous fuel. If the first-stage engines misfire, the crew will have to be shot away from the ship "with extreme promptness and at high velocity to a considerable distance." This means that the cabin must...
...pick up until 1951, when it became clear than the first Five Year Plan was succeeding. Although India's development has been mainly government run, many civil officials credit the Church with having "showed them how." Among the more interesting reforms the United Church has supported is an educational pilot project involving sociologists, technicians, and village residents. They will attempt to shape industry around village requirements and, if successful, should be able to work out an alternative to the construction of large, central factories...