Word: pilote
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...acclaimed hero of the Bermuda Sky Queen crash was Pilot Charles Martin. When his big Boeing flying boat ran low on gas over the stormy North Atlantic last month (TIME, Oct. 27), he had brought her neatly down off the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb and saved the lives of 69 passengers and crewmen. But as Civil Aeronautics Board hearings began last week, Pilot Martin (and crew) looked a lot less heroic...
...Pilot Martin, a 26-year-old ex-Navy flyer, confessed to an almost incredible tale of carelessness and poor judgment. He had taken off from Foynes, Eire, 3,600 lbs. overloaded, with two extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they...
Thompson casually admitted that he was no great shakes as a navigator anyhow. He was actually just a pilot-navigator. But he had boned up on the subject and relied on ten years of experience as a yachtsman. He had flown the Atlantic round trip only once before, had never heard of radioed wind and weather broadcasts from New York...
...pilot, the increased rate of fire is of crucial importance. During the war, German pilots found that the very speed of their jet planes in effect reduced their firepower, since there was much less time to pour bursts into an enemy plane. This partly offset the jet's advantage over conventional fighters...
Flight 608 was a giant four-motored DC-6 which had taken off from Los Angeles at 9:23 a.m., two hours before, bound for New York with 47 passengers and a crew of five. As soon as the ship's veteran pilot, 42-year-old Captain E. L. McMillen, had discovered the fire, he had reversed his course, headed back over southwestern Utah's jagged Bryce Canyon country, to an emergency strip 20 miles away...