Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before, the Forrestal had arrived off the North Vietnamese coast for her first combat duty, and her 4,500-man crew grimly recalled that a fire had killed 44 men aboard the carrier Oriskany in the same waters last October. "Two fires in one day," said a pilot. "We'd better watch that stuff...
...took occasional trips to visit old friends. It was on such a trip last week that a small Piper Aztec in which he was flying collided with a jet training plane in the northeastern state of Ceara killing Castello, his brother and three others, including the pilot...
...passenger on the turboprop wheeling out to the runway at Paris' Orly Airport could hardly believe his eyes. As the cockpit door briefly opened, he had got a glimpse of the crew up front. There beside the pilot sat a good-looking blonde. It was Jacqueline Dubut's debut as France's first lady pilot on a scheduled airline...
...becoming a flying folk heroine. French newspapers endlessly told how the pretty pioneer,* charmed by the tales of Aviator-Author Antoine de St. Exupery, worked in a factory as a teen-ager to pay for glider lessons, later finished at the top of the class in her pilot's exams-only to be turned down by Air France because long flights would be "too tough" for a woman. If a woman at the controls seemed odd to Air France, it did not to Air Inter, the fast-growing outfit that hired Jacqueline last May, and had her well...
...customers find that a pretty pilot makes those stiff fares easier to swallow, Air Inter presumably will not mind. But Rear Admiral Paul Hebrard, a retired naval aviator who is Air Inter's chairman, insists that Mlle. Dubut is aboard only because the airline has now outgrown its supply of males. "Her record was faultless. There was no reason not to hire her," he says. Not content to leave well enough alone, the admiral makes the ridiculous claim: "She must also be considered not as a girl...