Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lloyd, now in the midst of a study of the industrial history of the Rolls-Royce Company, graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. During the war he was a pilot in the South African Air Force. After the war, he entered Cambridge to begin his graduate study of economics...
...Christmas present to an English family. They dearly wanted eight pounds of knitting wool (two pounds each of three-ply Navy, grey, dark green and red) with two sets of knitting needles for a young Dutch girl who tends the grave of their son, an R.A.F. pilot shot down by the Luftwaffe over Holland. They had asked her what she wanted most, and she had answered: yarn...
...Push from Behind. If the pressure keeps falling, the pilot can tell that he is approaching a low-pressure area. Heading towards Europe, he would veer south (as on the map) to pick up a tail wind. Flying west, he would veer north, and get a similar boost. Radioed reports from ships, from shore or from other planes help him figure out the situation. Frequently a properly plotted pressure course, though covering a longer sea distance, saves more, than an hour on a transatlantic flight. It also saves fuel and money-a modern, four-engined airplane costs...
Pressure flying continues to grow more & more exact. Nowadays, airplanes in flight send hourly weather reports to the CAA's station WSY in New York. WSY edits the information and broadcasts its essentials at 25-minute intervals to other planes. By merely listening and figuring, a pilot can tell where to find the friendliest tail winds...
...France). His latest is short and exciting enough to be read between supper and bedtime; its nonstop narrative includes the low-level gunning of the Breadwinner by an enemy plane, the damaged ship's run home under sail through a rising storm, the deaths of the rescued pilots. Along with all this, Author Bates raises the moral question that was common in the years following World War I: What friendship does a man owe to his injured, mortal enemy?-a question that is answered with more humaneness by the R.A.F. pilot (who at least respects a fellow flyer, whatever...