Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does it demand crawling stealthily into luggage compartments. Instead, you go to private airports, or private hangars in regular airports, and hang out. Hang out, and look friendly, and don't be shy. Eventually (it may take a few minutes, or a few hours) a kindly executive, a bored pilot, a why-the-hell-not sportsman will shrug and smile and take your bags. Easy...
Metal Fatigue. At week's end investigators were also trying to solve the mystery of how Pilot McKenzie-who had been warned about the danger in his flight path-had run into the exact kind of storm that pilots are trained to avoid...
Despite the vast improvement in flight safety during recent years (TIME, April 11), neither man nor machine has been made foolproof. In clear skies last week, after an American 707 took off from St. Louis, one of its four engines fell off. The pilot easily landed, and a team of experts began looking into the possibility that metal fatigue may have caused the pylon bearing the engine to break away from the wing...
...stove, two hot-water heaters, a sink, color TV, an AM-FM radio, a cartridge and tape stereo system, and an auxiliary generator to run the appliances. The cabin, with 115 sq. ft. of living space, can accommodate eight passengers on comfortable Pullman seats, plus another deadheader beside the pilot in the cockpit. The seats are convertible at mealtimes to make two tables for six. After nightcaps, tall stories and Mary Hartman, the cabin becomes a comfortable dormitory for four (other guests can camp out under the canopy or the stars). With all the demands on its systems, the craft...
...Angeles to Miami-to universal amaze. For the man who has everything, or the company that wants something more, the Heli-Home may indeed outclass the private jet as a practical, all-purpose, tax-deductible vehicle that is not just a toy. Or, for $10.000 a week, plus pilot's salary, plus gas (75 gal. per hour), the party thrower or corporate showman can rent an H-H and be up and away...