Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve-Day Search. Weak from short rations and exertion, chilled by near-freezing rain, they fell to their knees in prayer when a Catalina flying boat (called a "Canso" in Canada) flew over them, wagging its wings. The pilot directed them to the nearest lake, where he landed and set out to meet them. After twelve days, the biggest air search (40 planes, one blimp) in Canada's history was over. Said resourceful Sergeant Scalise, thinking of the regular plane he was to have taken: "I guess I took the wrong taxi...
Seats should be made so that they slide a little when the plane crashes. Also, the plane's nose should be made of material that yields gradually. The Cornell men believe that if all these principles were followed, a pilot could fly a small plane into the ground at 150 m.p.h.-and walk away with a skull somewhat addled but still uncracked...
Dolph Samborski named the coaches yesterday for House football squads, and Eliot already has stolen a march on its intramural rivals. Charley Mains, last year's masterful pilot who turned out an undefeated squad, will be back to continue his reign as the outstanding exponent of the "T" formation attack in the House league...
Last week Test Pilot John Derry was flying De Havilland's experimental DH-108 at 40,000 feet over southern England. The weather was clear, the "machometer" (speed indicator in fractions of the speed of sound) showed Mach .86. Derry felt just right, so he opened the throttle and turned the nose down...
...swept-back wings with controls on their tips (see cut). This design may account for the fact that Pilot Derry felt none of the "compressibility" effects when flying in the transsonic speed range. But the DH-108 may have other improvements that are secret. A similar plane came apart in the air and killed Geoffrey de Havilland...