Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While he was flying 75 bombardment missions over Europe in World War II, 23-year-old Army Air Forces Pilot Roy Clark rose to the rank of major. But with peace, he faced reduction to first lieutenant in the Regular Army...
...half the public had heard of the spectacular feats of the Army & Navy's G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach). It was relatively simple. The only equipment needed in the plane was an ordinary two-way radio. A radar unit on the field picked up the plane, radioed the pilot what course to fly at what speed, when to lose altitude and how much. Experienced crews brought the plane smack down the middle of the runway again & again in zero-zero conditions. Neither service considered it experimental. The Army has recorded 35,000 G.C.A. landings, the Navy...
Oaxaca's title-loving Governor Edmundo Sanchez Cano (who usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered...
During the war the Government cramped Bertie McCormick's traveling style by using his private plane. Last week the Chicago Tribune's publisher climbed into his new Lockheed Lodestar, accompanied by his wife, stepdaughter, secretary and butler, and told his pilot to head south. From an A.P. meeting in New Orleans (the Colonel is a director), he went on to Texas and Mexico City. After that: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama. The traveler, first of all a newspaperman, let Tribune readers share his sightseeing and its attendant reflections...
...T.W.A. pilot for nine years, Thornburg entered the Navy in 1940, was an operations officer for the Naval Air Transport Service for the Caribbean and South America. When he got out of the Navy in 1946, he joined Waterman Airlines. With six planes - two DC-4s and four DC-3s - he has operated a nonscheduled service to Puerto Rico, Central America, England, Germany and South Africa, an intrastate line between six Alabama cities...