Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides, a contingent of growling press, and his brightly resilient wife Ella. It may be the jet age for everybody else, but for the Udall campaign it was four hours from Buffalo to Milwaukee, a flight not aided by head winds, the ministrations of a glum stewardess and a pilot whose name, discomfitingly, was Slaughter...
...Some high officials in Washington insist that the U.S. had no knowledge of the bombs and deny that they were a factor in the alert. The plane was spotted by Israeli air defenses and two Phantom jets scrambled to intercept it. "I have it on my radar," the Israeli pilot radioed. "It is an [SR-71] American Blackbird." Back to him came a direct order from a high-ranking Israeli Air Force commander: "Down at." The SR-71, flying effortlessly at 85,000 ft., easily outclimbed and outdistanced the Israelis and returned to its base with significant readings...
...particularly suspicious when Movie Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno appeared at Tokyo's Chofu Airport last week in a World War II kamikaze pilot's uniform, complete with white scarf and with risingsun flags emblazoned on his right sleeve and on his warrior's headband. As he rented a single-engine Piper Cherokee from a local flying club, he explained that he was merely doing a publicity turn for a new film on the 1944-45 suicide pilots...
Minutes later, Maeno cut the Piper's engine and shouted into his microphone the traditional kamikaze pilot's farewell: Tenno Heika Banzai!-Long Live the Emperor! He then dove his plane into Kodama's house, where it slammed into a second-floor balcony and exploded in flames. Maeno died instantly. But neither Kodama, resting in another room, nor any of his family or staff was hurt...
...books, those of his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and of his earlier biographers, the question remains: was Lindbergh ever truly at home anywhere but in a plane? Aloft, he was Lucky Lindy, the lanky youth who thrilled the county-fair set in his battered Jenny, the daredevil airmail pilot and, of course, that shy all-American who put the world into a barrel roll with his 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic...