Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harrier AV-8A jump jets, the British-built aircraft capable of leaping straight up from a carrier deck and then accelerating to more than 500 m.p.h., have crashed since the Marines first bought them seven years ago. Death toll: nine pilots. Six of the planes have gone down this year, the latest on July 26 in Pamlico Sound off eastern North Carolina, killing its pilot. Just two weeks before that, another pilot was killed when his plane dove into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast after having performed its feat of hummingbird derring-do from the carrier Saratoga...
...from conceding any serious flaw in design, maintenance or pilot training. Pentagon brass and Marine Corps senior officers insist that nothing is wrong and refuse to ground the plane. Says Major...
...naval victory at Midway Island stopped the Japanese tide in the Pacific and enabled Americans to take the initiative. On Aug. 7, 1942, Marines landed virtually unopposed on Guadalcanal and captured a vital airstrip that was renamed Henderson Field, after a pilot killed at Midway. Already ashore for many months were teams of coast-watchers who had taken to the wild highlands, where they played hide-and-seek with Japanese patrols and relayed information about enemy installations...
...helicopter buzzed over the DMZ, a unit of South Koreans, realizing it was off course, fired their rifles into the air to warn it. The shots may have confused or frightened the Chinook's pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Miles, 26, who continued to proceed across the well-marked 2.5-mile-wide DMZ into North Korea. There he landed and inspected the aircraft for damage. President Carter later related that Miles then "got back into the helicopter and took off. The North Koreans, who were approaching, apparently shot the helicopter down." Miles, Sergeant Robert Haynes, 29, and Sergeant Ronald...
...Baretta was solving a murder. A new pair of made-for-TV lovers (Italian and Jewish, natch) were trying to get it all together on CBS. Susan and Sam, an NBC comedy pilot, was getting a midsummer test flight. Then-phfft!-all over...