Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After reading your article [TIME, Aug. 9] concerning turbojet engines with speeds to Mach 4 and plus (enabling a pilot to lunch in New York and then fly to Honolulu to breakfast on the same day), I am prepared to give ground (or sky) to the future "zoomies." As a former Navy fighter pilot I had heretofore considered our navigation and power plant problems more difficult than would be our successors' with their simple jet engines and new navigational aids. [But] the pilot of the future will need a chronometer that runs backwards and is inscribed Yesterday, Today...
...Island with You (MGM) is a harmless little hot-weather cooler, filmed in a watery Technicolor haze. Sarongs are worn by the girls (Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse) and summer whites by the men (Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante). The story, all about the warmed-over infatuation of a Navy pilot for a movie star he met on a U.S.O. tour, was also meant to be air-conditioned, but it gets a bit humid. Swimmer Williams should not have been asked to impersonate a film actress, but in her aqua-ballets and posturings in a bathing suit, she is a fine sight...
...JESUS SAVES in white smoke. The stunt was the brain child of the Rev. Bert Turner, 36, an itinerant evangelist. The skywriting company reduced its usual rate to $10 a word, threw in a free cross between the two words and a couple more at the end, "if the pilot had any smoke left...
...known, to fly faster than sound is the rocket-propelled X-I (TIME, Jan. 5). But the X-I is not a real operational airplane. It is very small and heavy, made largely of metal plates nearly half an inch thick. It carres no useful load except the pilot, some instruments and fuel for two minutes of flight at full power. It smashed through the transonic speed band by sheer brute force, not aerodynamic virtuosity...
Pity, or what Scobie thinks of as pity, proceeds inexorably to destroy him. A young girl, survivor of a torpedoed ship, is carried into his life on a stretcher, and rather than let her innocence be corrupted by a promiscuous R.A.F. pilot, Scobie becomes her adulterous protector. Blackmailed by the Syrian loan-shark, Scobie, who cannot bear to let his wife suffer, buys off the Syrian by helping him to smuggle diamonds through the British blockade...