Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember the bottom dropped out, and then dropped out again, twice. It was the weather. It wasn't the pilot's fault and it wasn't the airplane's fault. I came to twelve or 15 times, I just don't remember. I knew where I was and what had happened, but I was kept so busy trying to keep the flies off and trying to move the body from me, and then I'd go back to sleep...
...fishermen heard an explosion that echoed from cliff to cliff. The Kvitbjoern, bound from Tromso to Oslo, burned for several hours. None of its 27 passengers and eight crewmen survived. It was the worst disaster ever for the Norwegian Airlines (headed by Admiral Byrd's old pilot, Bernt Balchen...
...same air. While Commander Caldwell was flying the Skystreak, the temperature of the air was only 75° F. But when Major Carl took the controls, it was 94° F. Sound travels faster in hot air, so the speed of sound at the course moved up too, keeping Pilot Carl's speed in "mach numbers" the same as Pilot Caldwell...
Despite flares and a pinpoint, radar-controlled search pattern, rescue planes crisscrossed the area in vain all night. At 7 the next morning, a Marine fighter pilot sighted an overturned life raft. A following B-iy spotted three survivors floating in the shark-infested water. An hour later the Coast Guard cutter Hermes picked them...
...with a fouled oil line, and Miss Peps finished the winner by quasi-default, a sort of streamlined version of Aesop's tortoise. Miss Peps, however, had not exactly plodded. With a converted Allison engine (from a Lockheed P-38) under her hatch and a converted Army pilot in her cockpit, she had averaged 54.88 m.p.h. Curly-headed Driver Danny Foster finished after being temporarily deafened by his engine, but not bleeding at nose & mouth, as drivers sometimes do after a bumpy, rough-water race...