Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First athlete to make the boat was slim Martin Biles, an ex-Army pilot who hurled his steel-tipped javelin 225 ft. 9 in. (the world's record, held by a Finn: 258 ft. 2f in.). In the twilight, before 20,000 cheering fans, Biles climbed up to the top step of the victors' pyramid, flanked by the two runners-up on lower steps, and was ceremoniously presented as a member of the Olympic squad...
...five-months-old dicker with the striking Air Lines Pilots Association and International Association of Machinists (original cause: the firing of a pilot), National Airlines, Inc. showed "immaturity and lack of responsibility," said a presidential emergency fact-finding board. It recommended the immediate rehiring of the 445 striking employees...
...stunt pilot of painting, Picasso, now 66, has made some of the fastest, furthest flights, most resounding forced landings and crashes in art history. He can also, as the new Verve demonstrates, make short, slow, sweet canoe trips when he chooses...
...information was no airborne picnic. The planes that did the job were tough, night-fighting Black Widows. They "penetrated" 1,600 thunderclouds, often coming out with their noses deep-dented by hail. The worst gust encountered blew at 43 ft. per second (29 m.p.h.) almost directly upward. Said the pilot who flew through it: "The jolt was so severe I thought I had collided with another plane. I was unable to keep my hands on the controls, they banged around so much...
Twenty times the planes were struck by lightning, which temporarily blinded the crew, burned off radio antennas, punched round holes in wingtips and tail surfaces. One pilot described what it felt like: "The radio static kept building in intensity until I couldn't keep the earphone close to my ears. I heard what sounded like the sharp burst of a German 88 millimeter. A sheet of flame enveloped the whole cockpit. Everything looked a bit fuzzy . . . the instruments jumped around so much that I couldn't tell for a moment what was going on. I just...