Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hensch tried the ropes, which were taut against the nine tons of cargo filling a ridiculously small part of the enormous interior. The two pilots went into the cockpit and started to warm up the engines. "They had a pretty good lunch in there today," said Baker to Hensch. "It was fish, but it was good." They had a little informal conversation with the control tower. (British pilots are still lost in wonder at the informality of U.S. communications. One British pilot walks around Berlin shaking his head and telling everybody he overheard a U.S. airman on the strip...
Fifteen minutes out of Berlin we passed a big Russian airfield. Did the Russians bother them much? "They come up and take a look at you," said Hensch, "and maybe do a couple of slow rolls to show off like any fighter pilot, but they don't mean any harm...
Thunderbird's Egg. Southwest's majority owners, ex-Test Pilot John H. Connelly, 48, president, and Cinemagent & Play Producer Leland Hayward, board chairman, hatched the airline from their wartime partnership in the Thunderbird cadet flying schools (TIME, June 9, 1941) and their wartime cargo line across the Pacific. At war's end, with $2,000,000 in capital and the backing of such Hollywood bigwigs as Jimmy Stewart, Brian Aherne and Darryl Zanuck, they got a three-year experimental charter from CAB for their West Coast feeder service...
...controls of the little Stinson on the reach south from Anchorage was a confident pilot with 365 hours logged. Taking her 11-year-old son to Washington, D.C. to school, Frances Lintner, 38, had set out to follow the Alaska Highway to Edmonton. Skittering along under low clouds just short of Fort Nelson, she mistook a logging road for the highway, crashed into 4,000-ft. Steamboat Mountain. She was killed. Desperately injured and pinned half upside down in the wreckage, Michael Lintner somehow lived through 40 hours until rescuers reached...
...engine trouble but labor trouble that threatened Pilot Baker with a crash landing. For six months this year most of his regular employees were out on strike. His clerks left when he insisted on his right to subcontract clerical work. Then mechanics refused to cross the clerks' picket lines. His pilots walked out after Baker fired one of them when his plane crashed. Baker hired a new staff and kept his planes flying, but he could no longer make his airline pay, especially as travelers were leary of his new help. Even after the clerks returned to work...