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Word: pilote (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years. Nelson, an imaginative Minnesotan who writes short stories in his spare time, says: "You don't just sit there and fly. You think." Flying for United, Nelson thought the airlines were overlooking too much contract business. After the war (in which he served as civilian pilot in the Air Transport Command), he and 14 other pilots rented twelve surplus Army planes and later raised $140,000 to form Transocean. Nelson still spends most of his time piloting Transocean planes (his wife, a former United Air Lines stewardess, still occasionally flies with him, as stewardess). On his flights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Handyman | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Thomas Dudley ("Tommy") Harmon, 29, onetime A.A.F. pilot and All-America halfback (Michigan, 1939-40); and Elyse Knox Harmon, 30; their second child, second daughter; in Burbank, Calif. Name: Kelly Jean. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Bucharest, Rumanians forgot for a moment the might of the Red army in the account of the latest U.S. super-super-super Flying Fortress. It was so huge that the pilot, hearing a noise behind him, had to dispatch a courier by motorcycle to locate the trouble. "Just a football game on the lower deck," came the report. Another ruckus. "A water polo match in the swimming pool." A terrific bang. "Now the boys are furious, sir," reported the messenger. "A Russian plane was trying to buzz us. It flew in through the window and crashed on the basketball court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Captain Herbert MacWilliams of the Chinese National Aviation Corp., formerly a U.S. Navy search pilot, spiraled the plane down to 200 feet and leveled off to drop our 11,000-lb. cargo of rice. Six soldiers, moving stiffly in heavily padded khaki uniforms, wrestled the 50-lb. rice bags to the open hatch, tumbled them out and watched them land in tiny puffs of dust in a walled compound near the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Everybody Fight Together | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Star, "was trying to recover its aplomb." But it was still reeling, said the Star, from the news that tall, lissome Joanne Connelley was going to forgo her debut and get married instead. The man of her choice was Robert Sweeny, 37, an ex-amateur golf champion, ex-combat pilot, and onetime heavy beau of Babs Hutton and Lady Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Wise Beyond Years | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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