Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armed hijacker on his way to the men's room. "I'm a dying man," Eastland was told. "I don't mind killing you. You better get back to your seat." Reported Eastland later: "I went right back and sat down." The gunman ordered Pilot Forrest Dines to fly to Cuba, but later tossed his .45 automatic on the cabin floor and surrendered. In an orotund senatorial non sequitur, Eastland said afterward that he saw no reason for changing his mind about guns. "It's all the Supreme Court's affair," he declared. "They make...
Bully Beef & Noodles. Tosolini's first inkling of trouble aloft was the sight of a MIG off his starboard wing. The Soviet pilot gestured to Tosolini to follow him. The DC-8 did, but when it veered off the new course for a few seconds, the MIG's guns belched a short burst. However, the shots were aimed away from the airliner. Nor did the Russians at Iturup seem unfriendly. When food aboard the airliner gave out, Soviet military rations of bread, cheese, butter, weak coffee, bully beef and noodles were provided, as well as cigarettes. During their second night...
...duty really helps national security. Already, 3,375 have been sent overseas; it would be hard to find more gung-ho outfits anywhere than four Air Guard squadrons mobilized straight into combat in Viet Nam. "Nobody's got a bitch about being here," claims Captain Thomas Risan, an airline pilot now bombing and strafing Viet Cong fortifications with the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Phan Rang. Calling themselves the "Raggedy-Ass Militia of Happy Valley," the 25 pilots and 350 maintenance crewmen of the 120th TFS have racked up more than 1,000 missions since reaching Viet Nam early...
...predicts, the laser will be a common tool "in the office, in the factory, and in the home, where it could be used for peeling potatoes." Or, he says, as he casually lights a book of matches with a hand-held laser, "it might even be used as a pilot light for kitchen stoves." To prove that his predictions are not as far-out as they seem, Schawlow has built and will soon market a laser eraser, a model of which he has already attached to his own typewriter. When he makes a mistake, Schawlow merely presses a button...
...Force Base one morning last week, following an overnight postponement because of last-minute technical problems, the first C-5 lifted gently off the runway for a 94-minute test. Aside from some minor difficulty with the landing gear, the world's largest aircraft, exulted Lockheed Test Pilot Leo J. Sullivan, performed in a way that was "phenomenally beautiful...