Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administered the drug, Orleans Parish Coroner Dr. Nicholas Chetta, apparently came away from the session convinced that Russo actually heard former Airline Pilot David Ferrie (who died mysteriously last month) plotting to kill Kennedy with Shaw and "Leon Oswald" at a party in September 1963. Defending his use of the drug on Russo, Chetta said that the technique successfully removes a patient's "mental blocks," thus helps him in "recalling things." That is an accurate enough statement of the drug's potential-as far as it goes...
Evasive Action. Although today's FAA airways are the most extensive and best-controlled in the world, they are far from foolproof?even with their current traffic load. On two occasions in 1965, for example, airline pilots, confused by optical illusions, took violent evasive maneuvers to avoid airliners that were actually separated from them by 1,000 feet of altitude prescribed by FAA controllers. Such unnecessary evasive maneuvers were cited as the probable cause of the collision over New York's Westchester County between an Eastern Airlines Constellation and a TWA 707 jet. Although both planes were damaged...
Earlier this month, a TWA DC-9 on a proper IFR approach to the Dayton airport collided with a twin-engine Beechcraft being flown under VFR on a bright, cloudless day. All 25 aboard the jet and the pilot of the private plane died. A few days later, an American Airlines jet flying IFR toward Newark Airport narrowly missed a small plane flying VFR in the same area...
...London Times was not content with just a pool. The Sunday Times and the daily Times had bought exclusive rights to Chichester's own account and had assigned a go-for-broke Australian, Murray Sayle, to handle the story. Sayle hired his own plane, lined up a Chilean pilot named Rodolfo Fuenzalida, whose normal work is to spot schools of fish. Fuenzalida had no hesitation about taking the job, even though the Chilean air force forbids its pilots to fly south of the cape for fear of violent winds. Despite the danger of overloading his Piper Apache, Fuenzalida squeezed...
...first airplane makers were less than impressed with the intense young engineer-pilot; they even refused his offer to work for nothing. In time he caught on as a $108-a-month draftsman at Huff Daland Airplane Co. of Ogdensburg, N.Y. Later he became a stress analyst at Buffalo's Consolidated Aircraft but was soon politely asked to look for employment elsewhere. He was fired outright by Ford Motor Co.'s aviation division...