Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven-foot monster wheel of the first Cunarders, which flung men to the deck or threw them across the wheelhouse, there is finger-tip steering with a complex series of superhuman power boosters to swing the 140-ton rudder through churning seas. If the watch officer chooses, a gyro pilot will relieve the helmsman entirely and keep the ship on course. No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull. Radar eyes pierce night...
...chairman, replacing Lord Knollys (rhymes with coals), went 68-year-old Sir Harold Hartley, famed chemist and transportation expert who had managed Britain's aviation gasoline program in World War II. As his managing director, Sir Harold got young (34), handsome Whitney Straight,* ex-R.A.F. pilot and commodore in Britain's Transport Command. Born in the U.S., Straight has lived in England since he was 13. He became a British subject and in his 20s he founded the Straight Corp., ran 23 of its aviation companies, including Western Airways, busiest in the British Isles. In one season...
...secret that AM receivers can be hooked into the FM band, but the converters that do this trick have sold for $50 & up, mostly up over $100. Last week Pilot Radio Corp. offered the public its Pilotuner, by far the cheapest converter yet marketed. Cost: $29.95. Said a top FM engineer: "It's the best value for the money so far. It makes a striking improvement in an AM set, though it still isn't up to a regular FM receiver...
...Hard Way. Wehran, a Marine pilot in World War I, then a barnstormer and a booking agent for Alaska bush flyers, got acquainted with Teterboro the hard way. He crashed there in 1924. In 1941, when he cast a speculative eye at it, the gone-to-weed field did not look much better to him. But Wehran thought it had possibilities. He scraped up the $100,000 down payment and bought the field for $500,000. Then he persuaded Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) to finance the remainder on a ten-year mortgage and lend him $500,000 more...
...pioneering in jet-propulsion planes sent an experimental test ship through the so-called supersonic wall. In other words ... it was traveling in space ahead of itself. . . . The plane was not heard of again for more than three weeks, when it was found crashed somewhere in lower Montana. The pilot was dead. He was 38, but his teeth and body were those...