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Captain Armando Piedra, 40, pilot for Cubana airlines, was flying from Havana to the Cuban city of Cienfuegos eight months ago when rebels fighting for Fidel Castro popped up among the passengers, commandeered the plane, forced Piedra to head for Mexico. A fortnight ago it fell to Piedra, who is also a good amateur skin-diver, to dive to the sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took...
...Mosier, 61, executive vice president in charge of operations, is a big, sugar-voiced barrel of a man, who bosses the biggest operations setup in the industry, spends 70% of American's dollar. A onetime barnstorming pilot, football coach and city manager, Mosier was hand-picked by Smith in 1938, is gearing every part of American's operation to such jet-age innovations as new fuel supplies (the jets eat up 2,000 gal. of kerosene per hour). American's 1,000 maintenance men must virtually relearn their jobs; the jet training manual alone consists...
...most thoroughly flight-tested and debugged air transport ever to go into service, had 50,000 flying hours as a military tanker and commercial prototype before the first plane was delivered to American. The pilots are delighted with it-although their wage demands for the jet age may ground some of the airlines before the fight is over. The pilots insist that the third man in the jet cockpit be a pilot instead of an engineer (TIME, May 5), want more money ($45,000 a year for a Pan American flight captain v. $25,000 now) on grounds that...
Before the show is half over, viewers are likely to wonder why CBS is not putting other Friars Club dinners on the air. Fact is, CBS planned on doing just that. After seeing the Sullivan pilot film, the Texas Co. was all set to pay $4,500,000 for a package that included eight similar shows, but backed out at the last minute. High-octane operators were disturbed, so the story goes, over a brief, dull speech by New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits in the last portion of the dinner. But Producer Nat (Bilko) Hiken, himself...
...TOUGHER PILOT CHECK by the CAA will mean more surprise inspections of airlines' blind-flying skill. Latest check: Northeast Airlines pilots, involved in three fatal crashes in bad weather in 21 months. Of first 95 Northeast pilots tested for instrument flying, five failed...