Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catalina skimmed above the calm waters and set its course for Hong Kong. Below, off Nine Islands, a scattered fleet of fishing junks spread their lugsails against the sky. Chiu Tok moved forward, ordered Senior Pilot Cramer to surrender the controls to him. One of the passengers rose to interfere. The pirates shot him. Co-Pilot McDuff grabbed an iron flag bar and swung on Chiu Tok. In a panic, the pirates fired wildly at the two pilots. Cramer slumped dead over the controls. As screaming passengers spilled into the aisle, the plane came around in a wide circle...
...jump around on the wing (see cut). The drag increases enormously; the wing's lift drops. The buffeting from the irregular airflow may be strong enough to tear the wing apart. This sometimes happens when a fast subsonic airplane dives too rapidly. The results are hard on the pilot-"as is well known," the training manuals say, "to many ghosts...
Over at Gatow Airport, in the British sector of Berlin, pilots had fun with a British WAAF operator known as Squeaky Mary. Whenever she told a pilot his course in her high-pitched voice, he answered in an equally squeaky imitation. Squeaky Mary called the U.S. airport. An American answered briskly: "Shoot, Luke, you're faded." Mary was momentarily nonplussed. After giving her message, she explained: "You see, it's been so long since I've had close contact with Americans-it's good to be at it again...
After he left Princeton in 1917, Elliott Springs trained as a pursuit pilot, became the nations No. 3 ace in World War I by downing eleven enemy planes. Back home, he continued as a hell-for-leather test pilot and barnstormer until his plane caught fire and crashed in the first U.S. cross-country race. The damage prompted Springs to start a much duller career in the family's mills...
...Sometimes he identifies himself as "Mr. Hoyt." He has had a number of other aliases, including one for the Town House in Los Angeles, one for the tailors from whom he never buys any clothes, and one which he used, years ago, when he got a job as co-pilot with American Airlines ($250 a month but good experience...