Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meanwhile, for the delegates, there was still the problem of how to enlighten the world. In a 115-page report, Britain's neon-bright Biologist Julian Huxley told the delegates what had been done in this direction during his second year as director general. His report mentioned a "pilot project" in Nyasaland for the education of natives in literacy, health, agriculture and commu nity living. There had been a survey started on re-education in Germany, and the launching of an "Inquiry into the Tensions Affecting International Understanding," to find out why people get so mad that they...
...family. For around $750,000, he bought the Gazette stock (25%) that was not already held by Heiskells. He also named ex-Army Major Hugh B. Patterson Jr., his capable, 33-year-old son-in-law, as his paper's publisher. (Son Carrick Heiskell, an Army pilot, was killed flying the Hump in World...
...fast will the XF7U-1 go? It is no secret (and the shape itself would be a giveaway) that it was designed to fly considerably faster than Mach 1. Navy Test Pilot Captain F. M. Trapnell, who is putting the XF7U-1 through its paces, said that he has not yet worked it to top speed or top altitude. He expects, however, that it will prove "the fastest of them...
Captain Trapnell, who passes on all Navy planes, is not much like a moviegoers' idea of a test pilot. He is no daredevil, nor is he "in love with the sky." Like most real-life test pilots, he is middle-aged (46) and matter-of-fact about his profession. He finds all airplanes uncomfortable, and suspects that people were happier riding horses...
Adding up the payload for a single westbound flight, Pilot Stewart finds on his bill of lading: the blonde, who is a truant from her honeymoon, an escaping embezzler (Porter Hall), a G.I. and his bride, a corpse, a shipment of whitefish, some live lobsters and a cigar-smoking chimpanzee. Before the flight has ended, the passengers have jounced through a forced landing (made partly because of weather, partly to pick up a few rustic gags from amiable Farmer Percy Kilbride, who keeps the New England accent flying in darkest Oklahoma), and reached several forced decisions...