Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being in the right place at the right time; Dermott O'Connell, another 18 year older, perhaps the least spectacular memeber of the starting five; Ken Haggerty--Navy vetrean and co-captain of team, playmaking guard and set shot artist, steadying influence; Joe Mullaney--22 year old ex-pilot and co-captain of team, honorable mention all-America last year, a crafty guard who does just about everything but collect tickets...
...rescue party, described grey-haired Margaret Tate, wife of a U.S. general, and engineer George Harvey as "heroes" of the ordeal. Said Zimmerli: "Mrs. Tate is a very brave woman. She stayed cool even when we crossed crevasses which were hundreds of feet deep. Several times she said: 'Pilot is my darling.' I didn't understand until they told me the pilot is her son. That is probably the reason too why she asked me to turn the sledge [towards] the crashed plane. She told me in German she wanted to look at it for the last...
...following day, Swiss pilots flying ski-equipped Fieseler Storch planes took off survivors in nine breathtaking shuttle trips. None of the passengers had been badly hurt. Captain Ralph Tate Jr., pilot of the plane, felt so good at the rescue depot that he spurned an ambulance, jauntily vaulted a fence to the waiting hospital train. To eleven-year-old Alice McMahon, it had been great good fun living off snow and chocolate bars for five days. She came off the rescue plane vigorously chewing gum, told reporters: "I had a fine time...
...chilly morning last week, Vincent J. Schaefer of General Electric climbed into a light plane at Schenectady's airport. While his boss, Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir, watched from a control tower, Schaefer told the pilot to fly to a cloud 50 miles away...
Even speeds now reachable, he mused, were pretty sticky for the pilots. "Bailing out is a bit of a problem. If a pilot bails out of a plane speeding 600 m.p.h., the air slows him down so suddenly that he gets a decelerating force of about 30 'Gs.' [Every part of his body weighs 30 times as much as normal.] This is a bit too much." To live, said Whittle, "the pilot will have to be tossed out in some sort of streamlined box," so he won't slow down too quickly...