Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime the snapping at Allied flanks in the city went on unceasingly. When a Soviet fighter plane dived into a British transport (15 died, including the fighter pilot), the Russians had apologized in jigtime, then as quickly reversed themselves. Wrote Red Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky in an outstandingly insulting note: attempts to blame the Russian pilot for the crash "can be interpreted by me only as defamation apparently following provocative aims." Robertson's reply was surprisingly mild; he asked for a joint investigation...
...cinnamon-red height of Caué rises 4,000 feet sheer from the lush green hills of Minas Geraes. It is a landmark that on a clear day can be seen by an airplane pilot 50 miles away. It is also one of the world's most precious topographical oddities. Caué is Brazil's Iron Mountain, a fabulous lode of some of the world's best ore, pure enough (up to 68%) to compete with Sweden's finest, vast enough to challenge Minnesota's great Mesabi...
...Hertfordshire, England last week, Test-Pilot John ("Catseye") Cunningham took off in a De Havilland Vampire fighter, powered with a "Ghost" jet engine. By the time he had landed, he had hung up a new airplane altitude record: 59,492 ft. (11.27 miles)-more than half a mile higher than the record (56,046 ft.) established ten years ago by Italy's Colonel Mario Pezzi. Said Catseye Cunningham: "I just flew the plane to the highest point it would go with that engine and then came down again. It took 32 minutes to go up and 18 minutes...
Nevertheless, the Senate is expected to confirm him, so that headless CAB can get to work again. Last week the Senate confirmed Harold A. Jones, 50, Los Angeles lawyer and World War I Marine pilot, thus filling the other vacancy on the five-man board...
...laid in Bombay or Westchester. His sister goes to jail in a riot, his friend Salim is assassinated and he himself attacked in ambush. His project for an airline transporting pilgrims comes to nothing (the pilgrims get airsick) and he settles down to a job as a commercial airlines pilot...