Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pilot study evaluated clinical training programs because they have received the least attention in evaluations of medical education, Whitla said...
...Pilot Study...
...evaluation system outlined in the report was tested last summer in a pilot study in four of the School's clinical clerkship programs, Whitla said. He said the evaluations proved useful and the study was encouraging...
...runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California, while locked tenaciously atop a huge and expensively modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The combined load of 293 tons (72 of them in the 122-ft.-long Enterprise] not only rose smoothly ("No tail shake at all," reported 747 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton Jr.) but maneuvered as gracefully as two such ponderous mating birds could. The vital 2-hr. 5-min. test was declared a complete success...
...coupled craft lifted to 16,000 ft., banked both left and right at 300 m.p.h. to test the ability of the 747 to carry its historic passenger in a stable fashion. At 10,000 ft., Pilot Fulton ran through other tests, including shutting off one engine and lowering the landing gear. Fulton's only unusual sensation was "a slight buffeting" caused by the bird perched on his plane's back. The touch down looked every bit as smooth as a commercial 747 landing at New York's J.F.K. Airport...