Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suppose you were the pilot of a single-seat jet fighter . . . scooting across the sky at 40,000 ft. or higher at more than 600 m.p.h., and suppose something went wrong. . . . How would you 'get out?' " The problem is posed by Hanson W. Baldwin in this week's New York Times magazine...
...payload. But this week the Peruvian International Airways started the first regularly scheduled passenger service (between New York and Santiago, Chile) completely safeguarded by radar. P.I.A.'s radars (made by General Electric) weigh 150 lbs. in all, but show a clear map of the country below. The pilot knows where he is-and where the obstacles are-in all weathers...
...Forces C-54 let down to a perfect landing. Out piled 14 passengers and crewmen, including U.S. scientists and a Royal Air Force observer. No one had touched the controls all the way from Newfoundland. The plane had taken off, flown the Atlantic, and landed without a pilot...
...year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, inheritor of $20 million, avid pursuer of the outdoor life (horses, deep-sea fishing, hunting, aviation). An instructor pilot in World War I, Whitney entered World War II as a major, served ably in Africa, the Pacific and Washington, came out a colonel with the Distinguished Service Medal...
...baseball history only four men-Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Hack Wilson and Hank Greenberg-had hit 50 home runs in one season. Last week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...