Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II Officer Schriever rose from captain to colonel, flew 63 missions chiefly as a B-17 pilot in the Pacific, rose through varied air-logistics jobs to command the advanced echelon of Far East Air Service Command. He saw less than an ambitious airman would want to of the shooting match, but he continued to qualify himself for research and development. He learned something of the shoestring tragedies of R and D when a B-17 fitted with a new flare-dropping rack that he had designed caught fire mysteriously over Cairns, Australia and crashed, killing...
...when he won a Regular Army commission as a second lieutenant, Schriever headed like a self-guided missile into the heart of the growing field of aviation research and development. On the basis of his flying experience and his engineering background, he got a coveted job as test pilot at Ohio's Wright Field; there he flew anything that came along, frequently five or six new and unproven planes a day, all the way up to the B-17 which was then in modest production. He moved on to Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School (mornings devoted...
...read de news, I am so puzzled, I am confused About an ex-pilot and now celebrity Whose name is Gerry Lester Murphy...
Rupert ("Kontiki") Allen, Panama's calypso king, went on to give his customers a rhymed rundown on the latest theories about Pilot Murphy's mysterious disappearance in the Dominican Republic (TIME, Feb. 25). Kontiki was staying on top of his profession last week by wryly relating the vagaries and outrages of Caribbean power politics...
...nonscheduled airlines* that sprang up after World War II, none was a bigger hit with the traveling public-or more trouble to CAB-than Trans American Airlines. Put together by a former Navy lieutenant commander, an ex-Air Corps transport pilot, and two former Douglas Aircraft employees, the Trans American group of companies started cheap fares, forced scheduled airlines to cut-rate coach fares. Trans American built up a $16 million annual business. All told, it has carried more than 1,250,000 passengers without an accident. But it broke CAB's regulations by shuffling planes about among five...