Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expedition was headed by Baltimore-raised Moon F. Chin, once Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot. "I don't think the mountains are as high as Mr. Reynolds claims," he said. "But we might as well see." With him went 14 Chinese and foreign correspondents, two technicians, and a Chinese crew armed with radar equipment...
...Pilot Chin circled and zigzagged over the range (most of the time at 18,000 ft.), found no competitors for Mt. Everest. The tallest peak he saw (22,000 ft.) was not among the Amne Machins but in the Kuolo range near by. Tallest Amne Machin peak observed: 19,000 ft. Drawled Chin: "I never thought those mountains were very high. But I didn't expect they'd be that damn...
Commander Ronne flew 39,000 miles of mapping flights through air so pure that a pilot could see 200 miles ahead. His special trimetrogon cameras (three cameras working simultaneously) could snap horizon-to-horizon photographs every 20 seconds for the mapmakers. The photos would make it possible to chart the last unknown coastline in the world. With the explorer's prerogative, he named places for friends and colleagues: Edith Ronne Land for his wife, Isaiah Bowman Coast (for the geographer-president of Johns Hopkins), Lowell Thomas Mountains, Larry Gould Bay (for the explorer-president of Carleton College...
...pitcher. If the fence-busting New York Giants had two more good pitchers, they could take World Series orders this week. But the club other managers worried most about was the Boston Braves, which has a new doubleplay combination (Rookie Alvin Dark and Oldster Eddie Stanky) and a shrewd pilot, Billy Southworth...
Perhaps all this pessimism has some connection with the fact that on the day this reporter last spoke to the coach, they had just returned from the speetacle of seeing an adroit Freshman coxswain pilot a load of 150's into a passing sailboat. Somehow, the coaches seemed a bit tired of it all. The Varsity Schedule April 24 Princeton, MIT, and Rutgers at Princeton May 1 Cornell here May 8 Pennsylvania and Navy at Philadelphia May 15 Eastern Intercollegiate Sprint Regatta here June 25 Yale at New London