Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, winging east across the U.S., he was still right on schedule. But near St. Louis the weather began building up. Running into ice, the pilot headed north to Chicago, touched down at the Douglas airport just two hours and 40 minutes before General Marshall was scheduled to take the oath of office in Washington as Secretary of State...
...office-the day he is elected and the day he steps out." The unexpectedly early news reached General Marshall as his C-54 snored steadily eastward through the skies over Okinawa, bringing him home from China. At eleven o'clock at night, Shanghai time, the plane's pilot, Colonel H. C. Munson, came back to tell him of a news broadcast and offer congratulations...
...pilot's seat, Capt. H. M. Haskew was getting reports of dirty weather ahead at Winston-Salem. At 1:10 a.m. he reported that he was over Greensboro at 7,000 feet; over Winston-Salem (17 miles west of Greensboro) at 1:15 a.m. Directed by air traffic control, he let down to 4,000 feet. At 1:33 a.m. he was cleared to the Winston-Salem tower for landing...
...airlines' heavier death toll had been caused by more traffic, and more congestion at airports (many of them inadequate). One hope of betterment lay in the fact that "ground-controlled approach," in which radar is used to guide a pilot on to a field he cannot see, was being installed at New York, Chicago and Washington airports. Pan American Airways had put it in at Gander, Newfoundland (after a Belgian airliner crashed there, killing 27). If used at all large airports, G.C.A. might cut airline fatalities in half...
Last week this year's recipient was named: Robert Nishiyama, 22, of Tokyo, ex-pilot in the Kamikaze (suicide) corps. Said he: "I want to try my best to repay Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone for the loss of their son. I can do this only by giving my small bit toward establishing good will between our two countries...