Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commander Albert S. McLemore, Evans' skipper, was one of the last swimmers to be rescued. Aboard the Australian carrier, the American skipper made his way to the bridge for an emotional meeting with Stevenson. Later MCLemore recalled: "We met about halfway through the pilot house. I was still about half naked. We embraced and we both said, 'I'm sorry,' at about the same point...
...latest movie. Vixen, is in the Meyer mold. Once again there is the rolling glandscape; once again, such complications as plot and acting are forbidden. In British Columbia, Canada, a bush pilot spends too much of his time on the wing. In his absence, his wife Vixen (Erica Gavin, 42-24-36) lives up to her name, deceiving him with everyone from a Royal Mountie to the wife of a visiting fisherman (Vincene Wallace, 37-24-35). A Mama Sutra of seductresses, Vixen is an ideal utility infielder, at home in any position. Audiences willing to endure lapses into good...
Whatever it is, the choice has been made, and there's really no turning back. And I don't really know just why I'm sad that it must be as it will be. Maybe I'm just a romantic; maybe I only want to see the space-pilot analog to Ivanhoe; maybe I love the dreams of my childhood too much. There's just no telling. The only certain thing is that--whether we go to Mars or not--the choice has been made. You can see it in our literature; you can see it reflected in the increasing...
...flew a Heinkel air ambulance in Ethiopia, helping victims of Italian aggression. When Russia attacked Finland, he signed up as a lieutenant in the Finnish air force. In the Congo in 1960, Von Rosen flew supplies for Swedish troops on United Nations peace-keeping duty. Now a senior pilot for a charter flight service called Transair Sweden, Von Rosen last summer hauled relief supplies to Biafra...
...lost radar contact almost instantly. Nearly an hour after his takeoff, Meyer called in to ask that he be put in touch with his wife by radiotelephone. The Air Force complied. "I am heading home," he told her. Then he radioed: "I'm having trouble with my automatic pilot. Leave me alone for five minutes. I'm having trouble." That was the last word anyone heard from the sergeant...