Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew the birthday flight," said Pilot Michael Seeley of Bakersfield, Calif. "Why doesn't somebody tell us these things...
...audience by reading what was in the mind of Rhode Island's Congressman Aime Forand, who was standing on the steps of the Capitol, 225 miles away. (Forand was thinking: "American citizenship is priceless.") Last week, Dunninger read the mind of a Trans-ocean Air Lines pilot circling 5,000 feet above the Radio City studio. (His thought was a commercial plug for the company.) These feats, Dunninger solemnly avers, were accomplished for the entertainment of TV audiences without the use of "supernatural powers." But they have given an almost supernatural boost to his Bigelow Show* (Thurs...
...shark-infested sea. In six minutes the plane sank. A few survivors, who had scrambled out, reached the island. Others floated in the water until Coast Guard boats, guided by the eerie swaying light of plane-dropped flares, picked them up. Of the 81 aboard, 53 were lost, including Pilot Cockrill and the five infants, all but three of the 20 women...
Soviet Air Force Lieutenant Ilya Muchets was looking for his destiny in the opposite direction. After grazing a nearby mountain, the 26-year-old pilot crashed his single-engined fighter on the runway at Stockholm's Södertörn Military Airport. He said that he was "just fed up with Russia...
...slight, wiry Lewis C. ("Squeaky") Burwell was washed out of the Army's aviation cadet training program by his superior, Claire Chennault. When World War II came, stubborn Squeaky Burwell got his chance to fly in combat and as a transport pilot in China. One day he found among his passengers General Claire Chennault. "Brother," said Burwell, "you better get out. It's going to be a rough ride...