Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the local bar society, which has some feelings about the rule of law, none of this seemed to distress many Ghanaians. But it raised outcries all over Britain, which having launched this "Pilot Plant of African Democracy" to show South Africa's Racists how well the blacks could govern themselves, at first sought to minimize its misgivings (TIME, Sept. 2). What particularly raised British hackles was an awareness that actions in Accra were not just the doing of a headstrong Nkrumah but were shrewdly encouraged by a white eminence, Ghana's recently appointed Attorney General, Ulster-born...
...single foxhole in the ice of a Korea winter . . ." Murrow brought back the vivid sight and sound of a marine's shovel rasping futilely at the earth. Other memorable See It Now moments for eye and ear: a Buchenwald tattoo on the arm of an Israeli jet pilot; a "rehabilitated" Mau Mau warrior singing Onward, Christian Soldiers; the ding of a bullet taken out of a G.I.'s spine as it was tossed by the surgeon to a nurse and dropped into a cup in her hand...
...profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot light" that automatically relights an engine if it goes out. Meanwhile, the same problems have held up the longer-range (5,000-mile) Britannia 310 series...
...Ontario, Calif., gassed up for its flight to Honolulu, a Trans-ocean Airlines Super-Constellation stayed earthbound when its pilot mislaid the right credit card for $1,135.58 worth of fuel, took off on schedule after Passenger Bill Hendrie whipped out his own credit card, grandly signed...
Died. Harold Charles Gatty, 54, Australian airman, navigator on the 1931 globe-girdling, record-setting (8 days, 15 hrs., 51 mins.) flight of the Winnie Mae, which brought international fame to him and to one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post (who crashed and died with Will Rogers in 1935); of a heart attack; in Suva, Fiji Islands. Gatty developed, tested and taught a stargazing navigational system that guided (via his The Raft Book) many wartime downed flyers to safety. In recent years he bought a small island in the Fiji group, founded (1951) and operated the successful three-plane Fiji Airways...