Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more bullets stitched the aircraft's front fuselage, Pilot Trainee Yoram Peres doubled up with three bullets in his abdomen (he was later reported recovering). Copilot Moshe Heichel was hit in the hand. Over the plane's loudspeaker, passengers heard Captain Israel Ganot order, "Everybody down on the floor. Don't move. Keep quiet. God is with us." One who did not obey was Mordechai Rahamim, 22, an ex-paratrooper whom El Al preferred to call an armed passenger but who was evidently a hired security agent. Holding a .22-caliber Beretta automatic, he jumped from...
...Serum. The state's key witness, Book Salesman Perry Russo, was severely handled by Defense Counsel Irvin Dymond. On crossexamination, Dy-mond led Russo carefully through the events of the party at which he said that he had heard Shaw, Lee Oswald and David Ferric, a former airlines pilot, discuss ways of killing the President. After two days of contradiction-riddled testimony, Russo made the state's case as shaky as JellO. He also displayed considerable antagonism toward Garrison and his staff, who had extracted depositions from him under hypnotism and the influence of Sodium Pentothal...
...today's jetliners, if a pilot allows his speed to reach 85% of the speed of sound, a bell rings and a light flash es to caution him to go no faster. There is good reason for the warning. Beyond that limit, the big ships generate turbulence that causes a drastic loss in efficiency and sometimes dangerous buf feting. Thus, although the sonic barrier is around 660 m.p.h. at the normal jet cruising altitude of 35,000 ft., commercial jets are held down to a speed of about 560 m.p.h...
...bigger and potentially much more profitable than the 707s and DC-8s. In the first test flight last week, a 747 cruised for more than one hour and then made a smooth landing near Boeing's Everett, Wash., plant. "This plane is ridiculously easy to fly," said Test Pilot Jack Waddell. "It's a pilot's dream...
...waning days of World War II, a Marine pilot (Marvin) bails out over a tiny island in Micronesia. Like Robinson Crusoe, he mistakenly believes that he is all alone. His Friday, however, turns out to be a Japanese officer (Mifune), also beached for the duration...