Word: pilote
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...close up. It was also the start of the first permanent scheduled airline service in the U.S. More than half a century later, TIME'S Jerry Hannifin finally realized his childhood dream by flying a restored Swallow. He has logged 2,550 hours in the air as a pilot, flying planes that ranged from a J-3 Cub to the Air Force's giant B-52G. An unabashed aerophile who has never let his FAA license expire, Hannifin goes by a simple credo: "I fly whenever I get the chance." He drew on his lifetime of enthusiasm...
...last week were David Holmes, 46, a Manchester financial consultant and former deputy treasurer of the Liberals, and George Deakin, 35, and John Le Mesurier, 44, both business associates of Holmes'. All four had been under investigation since October 1977, following the public confession by a former airline pilot, Andrew Newton, 33, that he had been offered roughly $10,000 by a nameless "prominent Liberal" and friend of Thorpe's to murder Scott and thus silence the claims of homosexual liaison. Newton had been sentenced to two years in prison after shooting Scott's dog and threatening...
...most bizarre one concerns Alexander Peter Treu, 56, a German-born Canadian and former Luftwaffe pilot who heads Canalatin Consultants, a Montreal electronics firm. In the late 1960's and early '70's, he worked on the design of communications and surveillance systems that were built for NATO by a larger Canadian firm. In 1974 Mounties raided Treu's home and carted away 500 Ibs. of documents. In 1976, after a long investigation, he was charged under the Official Secrets Act with holding on to classified documents without official authorization and failing to take "reasonable care...
...many of them, it is the second time they have put to sea in the leaky boats, which bear such prayerful names as Bon Dieu Bon (God Is Good) and Dieu Est Mon Pilote (God Is My Pilot). Since the late 1960s, Haitians have been emigrating illegally to the nearby Bahamas, where an estimated 40,000 now live, working as gardeners, servants and day laborers. But Bahamian officials, faced with an unemployment rate of nearly 25%, in June ordered the Haitians to leave. Explained Bahamian Information Services Spokesman Chris Symmonett: "They have been taking jobs Bahamians could perform and putting...
Israel's El Al, the airline that launched a thousand quips about my son the pilot, is flying low?in part because of its pampered pilots. A plethora of labor disputes, including jealousy in the ranks of many of the line's eight unions over the fact that a few jumbo-jet pilots earn as much as $11,000 a month, forced management to ground its planes for three weeks in April. The lockout cost the company $15 million, but its problems did not end there. Among the others: a labor force of 5,500 people that some critics claim...