Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York! Chicago!" Major Lyles and his three remaining crewmen leaped out of the burning plane, were soon rounded up by Soviet troops. But the five who had bailed out safely had a far rougher time. Hundreds of copper-skinned Armenian peasants swarmed around Relief Pilot Colonel Dale Brannon, Copilots Major Robert Crans and Major Bennie Shupe, first curiously, then aggressively hostile. The peasants marched them off toward a village, began slapping, kicking, hitting them, dug into their pockets for souvenirs as they loaded them into cars and trucks. The truck carrying Major Shupe stopped beside a telephone pole. One peasant...
...plots in Amman and Baghdad to kill both young Kings had been timed to go off almost simultaneously. Hearing the news of the revolt in Baghdad, stout-hearted young King Hussein this week proclaimed himself new head of the Arab Union, and broadcast to his people: "We shall pilot the ship toward a safe harbor, relying on our loyal people and army...
From FBI files last week came new evidence powerfully supporting the hypothesis that Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo engineered the international kidnaping of Basque Scholar Jesús de Galíndez from the heart of Manhattan on March 12, 1956. Released were papers of Pilot Gerald Murphy, the onetime Eagle Scout from Eugene, Ore. who flew the kidnap plane and later vanished in the Dominican Republic. Items...
...rotating compressed air nozzles. One of them in the tail controls pitch. Two more, one on each wing tip, take care of roll and yaw. The X-14 can hover indefinitely at any level, supported by the deflected thrust of its engines and balanced by its nozzles. When the pilot wants to fly horizontally, he merely adjusts the Venetian blind so that the gas stream from the engines shoots directly astern. Then the X-14 flies like an ordinary jet plane, supported by the lift of its wings and controlled by its conventional ailerons and tail surfaces...
...first complete transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back again was accomplished by Bell Aircraft Corp. at Niagara Falls on May 24, when Test Pilot David W. Howe lifted the X-14 vertically off the runway. He hovered for a few seconds, then flew horizontally at 160 m.p.h. Returning to the airport, he came to a full stop ten feet off the ground, made a 180° hovering turn, and settled down on the surface...