Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a preliminary investigation, CAB Chairman James Landis made an obvious preliminary finding: the plane had crashed while going down through the overcast. But why? Pilot error? Instrument failure? CAB inspectors set out for the answer. President Truman appointed a five-member board to study all the recent air accidents. In three weeks, 146 people had died in the flaming wreckage...
...Alaska has 27 major airports, 20 big secondary landing strips, 43 radio ranges, 46 weather observation stations. There are 582 commercial airplanes registered within the Territory-there had been only 99 in 1940, 157 in 1945. More important, many are efficient, multiengined aircraft. The bush pilot is still making medicine with his light plane, still landing passengers and freight in improbable corners of the country. But the DC-3 and the DC-4 do the big business, droning unconcernedly over mountains which early flyers had crossed only with the aid of rabbits' feet and gilded baby shoes...
...Afraid? Were the graduate veterans worried about the problems of the Atomic Age? Ed Prizer, who flew 103 combat missions as a Spitfire pilot in the R.C.A.F., returned to graduate from the University of Southern California, wrote a half-page valedictory for U.S.C.'s Alumni Review: "We Are Unafraid." Excerpts: "This year there are some seniors who are afraid to graduate ... to face the Atomic Age. . . . Those of us who do not fear graduation are unafraid because we know we hold the key to the future. ... We value faith...
Moment of Decision. As he passed the 2,000-ft. mark with his engines turning at full take-off power, he faced one of a pilot's most critical decisions. Should he use the rest of the runway in trying to get off? Or should he obey the classic flying rule that it is safer to plough through a fence on the ground than to push through, a bad takeoff...
...Watched. His newspaper, the West African Pilot, has grown into a chain of five, spanning southern Nigeria with a total circulation of over 25,000. Ex-Strikebreaker Zik has been accused of inciting coalfield workers to strike and has won and lost a string of libel suits. By flamboyant and often crude tactics, Zik has built an enormous (7,000,000, says Zik) following among Nigerians, most of whom are illiterate. To keep tabs on him the British have CID detectives watching him constantly. He shrugs them off, says, "A man with a free conscience has nothing to worry about...