Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baseball's Hall-of-Fameman Frankie Frisch, 59, onetime (1933-38) pilot light of the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House...
...airplane's speed by means of radar pulses reflected from the ground. It also measures the sideways drift caused by cross winds and keeps track of the airplane's heading during all parts of the flight. This informa tion, combined automatically by a computer, tells the pilot continuously where he is, and as a kind of extra feature, the clever "66" helps him find the fastest wind to boost him to his destination...
...find the jet stream the pilot flies in its general direction, which can be determined by the weatherman. When the "66" tells him that his drift angle is increasing, he knows that he is getting into the jet stream and is being carried along by it. When the drift angle reaches a maximum, he turns downstream until the drift angle falls to zero. Then he knows that he is flying in the center of the jet stream. If the stream curves, as it often does, the airplane can follow it by keep ing the drift angle at zero. When...
...fancy cooking of his wife, plain Jessie George, says Author Jean-Aubry in a very French aside, made things bearable. Isolated in his cottage in Kent, where he could sniff the sea, Conrad sometimes despaired of his writing (he thought of becoming a pearl fisherman or a Suez Canal pilot), but in the end his work was recognized for what it was?amid the sentimental afterglow of the Victorian Age, only he and Thomas Hardy spoke with the cold, severe voice of tragedy. In 1923 he traveled to the U.S. to see his publisher, whom he called Doubleday Effendi...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Clay Pigeon, with Farley Granger as a test pilot in love with Phyllis Kirk (color...