Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most airports are only equipped with a navigation and approach system called VOR-DME (for very high frequency, omnirange, distance-measuring equipment), which guides a plane into the traffic pattern. But it is the final letdown through fog or rain that produces the tensest moments for pilot and crew. Then more than VOR-DME is needed. The Air Force relies on a system called PAR (for precision-approach radar). Because it places decision making in the hands of the ground controller, it is not popular with airline captains. In the past 14 months, PAR systems have been abandoned...
Died. Major Arthur W. Beckstrom, 33, highly decorated U.S. Air Force pilot (20 medals of valor, including the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross), who survived 202 combat missions in Viet Nam without serious injury; in the crash of his RF-101 Voodoo reconnaissance jet while on a training flight; near Blue Ridge...
Next Moves. Unless the Civil Aeronautics Board turns thumbs down or President-elect Nixon vetoes the deal, which he can do because flights to foreign countries are involved, Hughes will get back into a business for which he has long had an appetite. A pilot himself, he set speed and round-the-world flight records, and designed such innovations as retractable landing gears. But he has a dismal record of running airlines. In control of Northeast Airlines from 1962 to 1964, he sold out when the carrier was just short of bankruptcy. Under new management, Northeast recovered. From...
Still aboard the spacecraft, Borman engaged in small talk by radio with the pilot of a helicopter, reporting that the moon was not made of green cheese after all: "It's made out of American cheese." Standing happily on the deck of the Yorktown, Borman posed a quickly solved mystery: although Lovell and Anders had full growths of beards, the Apollo 8 commander was clean-shaven, On the short flight from Apollo to the carrier, he had used an electric razor provided by the helicopter pilot...
...Pilot Comedies. Results of this de-escalation should show more plainly next season. ABC President Leonard Goldenson told the violence commission that only one of the 30 series now under development by his network is an "adventure" show. CBS's senior programming vice president, Mike Dann, agrees that "the number of action shows is down drastically in the pilot area." His NBC counterpart, Mort Werner, also anticipates "more comedy and less action." The networks' Hollywood suppliers are, of course, reacting accordingly. Universal Studios is not making any more westerns on speculation, but is concentrating on three new doctor...