Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confirmed these essential facts, The XS-1, a small, thin-winged, rocket-propelled airplane, built by Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corp., had been flown through the barrier several times in recent weeks at the closely guarded test center at Muroc, Calif. The chief test pilot was 24-year-old Air Force Captain Charles Yaeger, World War II fighter pilot. The other pilots were Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover, civilian flyers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other...
Born. To Deborah Kerr, 26, copper-haired British cinemactress (Colonel Blimp, The Adventuress), who has thus far survived her M-G-Metamorphosis into a Hollywood star (The Hucksters), and Anthony Bartley, 28, ace Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melanie Jane Bartley. Weight...
...Indians who speak only their own languages. To educate them, the government is now using a new hotly disputed technique; they are first taught to read & write in their native dialects, then are taught Spanish. Not for another year, and only after reports are in on a similar UNESCO pilot-project in Haiti, will educators decide just how good this scheme...
...hazards of the air age is the risk of being roasted in a friction-heated cockpit. The fastest jet planes need refrigerating systems to keep cockpits bearable. But what if the cooler goes haywire while the plane is in flight? Air scientists have wondered what the pilot should...
...delegates had set up pilot educational projects in illiterate regions; they had arranged world music libraries, microfilm exchanges of important books, recorded lectures from rich universities for poor universities, a science center in Paris...