Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Testy Pilot. In Wichita, Kans., police refused to accept Motorist Johnny Eli's complaint that a passenger airliner was "trying to crowd me off the road," arrested him for drunken driving on the city airport's runway...
...When the pilot starts his attack on an enemy airplane, the Sidewinder tells him by a buzzing signal when it "sees" an object that it can home on. When the target is close enough, the pilot presses a button. The Sidewinder fires and is thereafter on its own, pursuing the target relentlessly. Its range is up to 20,000 ft., depending on many factors, including direction, altitude and speed of both airplanes. Frequently a Sidewinder gets in a jet's wake and flies right up the tailpipe before it explodes...
Under fire, Red pilots have shown their inexperience. Some have crash-dived into the sea trying to escape. One Nationalist pilot came up on the tail of a MIG. To his astonishment, the confused Red panicked, put on his brake flaps, slowed to 100 m.p.h. "I shouldn't really take credit for that one," said the pilot. "It was just like shooting down a flying barn door...
...from Harvard was at this regional meeting. This conference was part of a program financed by a $24,500 grant from the Ford Foundation. Although Ivy League and Seven College Conference institutions have problems which are "different" from those at other colleges, Trinity, Mount Holyoke, and Cornell are "pilot campuses" in this program...
Gordon and Small went on to produce pilot films for such shows as Lassie, Charlie Chan, Tugboat Annie, The Halls of Ivy and Count of Monte Cristo. T.P.A. then sold the pilots, got such sponsors as National Biscuit, Campbell Soup and International Harvester to help pay for the production costs on the series. In 1957 Producer Small returned to making features on a full-time basis, sold his interest back to T.P.A...