Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While rumors filled the air as to who the next manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers would be, the erstwhile pilot of the Flock still had not announced his plans for sitting out 365 days of suspension from Happy Chandler's portion of organized baseball. University officials were without comment on the CRIMSON's, suggestion that the Lip be offered a job as assistant baseball coach here...
Thunderclouds-and the plane-racking turbulence that goes on inside them-are a constant menace to a pilot. He cannot always tell whether the cloud ahead is dangerous or not. Last week both the airlines and the U.S. Weather Bureau were peering into clouds with radar-which seems to be the way to spot a genuine thunderhead full of dreaded turbulence...
...plot is embarrassingly slight: wounded Veteran John Turner, back at his job as a London salesman, is told by his surgeon that he has but a year to live. He is determined, before he dies, to look up three hospital buddies who were kind to him: a British pilot, a British paratrooper, an American Negro G.I. In Burma, he finds the pilot (who had once objected to having the Negro in the same hospital room), happily married to a Burmese girl. The paratrooper (who had beaten a murder rap on the plea that the Army had taught him to kill...
...basic device of MAU: radio transmitters which shoot thin "fans" of radio energy into the air. They are arranged in pairs so that their fans intersect at a predetermined altitude. Long lines of these intersections form tracks leading down to the airport. The pilot of an approaching plane "latches on" to the end of a track, 40 miles out. Then automatic instruments take over, keep him on the track of intersections until he is practically on the ground. Receiving sets spotted along the track flash lights in the control room, tell ground operators just where the plane...