Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After months of entreaty, a 76-year-old Fosston, Minn, farmer named Walter Morgan got a pilot to take him aloft for a parachute jump. He leaped out of the plane at 1,800 feet, gave 2,000 spectators near heart failure by letting himself fall free until he was halfway to the ground. Then he yanked his rip cord, landed calmly in a field, said: "That's what an old man can do when he lets liquor alone...
Born. To Lieut. Colonel Lucius DuBignon Clay Jr., 29, wartime bomber pilot, elder son of the U.S. commander in Berlin, and Betty Rose Commander Clay, 23: their second child, a son; in Washington. Name: Lucius DuBignon III. Weight...
Married. Second Lieut. Felix Anthony ("Doc") Blanchard, 23, hefty "Mr. Inside" of the Army's great wartime football teams,* now an Air Force fighter pilot; and Josephine ("Jody") King, 21, San Antonio socialite; in San Antonio...
...youthful General Gus Beale to see that his men do. Unlike most generals in fiction, Beale is not only a very likable man, he is also fit to be a general. A brilliant fighter pilot, a veteran of Bataan and the North African front, he is now being kept out of harm's way in Florida, his every move watched by the men in Washington who must decide whether or not to choose him as commander of the expected air assault on Japan...
...lost money. When Jim Ray, the first boss, quit, Jack Connelly moved in with a meat-ax. He trimmed out most of the top brass, made the survivors double in it. Southwest's only remaining vice president, Operations Chief Ted Mitchell, flies 25 hours a month as a pilot and all pilots refuel their own planes...