Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after all that, why get off the ground? Fifty years before Maverick and Goose, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy dared the clouds in Test Pilot (1938), a paean to the thrills, thralls and tragedies of dancing with that blue-clad lady (more of the last, apparently, when in a military aircraft). Just ask weak-kneed Myrna Loy when her man goes plummeting. It was MGM's biggest hit, and you get Lionel Barrymore thrown in. And remember: they died at their trade...
...Mark Thompson backs this up: ?This rash of accidents in a short space of time is simply a coincidence,? he says. Still, it can't hurt to take the planes down and go through safety procedures with the recruits: Investigators believe most of the recent crashes were caused by pilot error...
Born in New Jersey in 1925, Salter grew up in Manhattan, graduated from West Point and chose to serve with the Army Air Corps, as it was then called. During the Korean War, he was an F-86 fighter pilot, along with pioneering astronauts Gus Grissom and Buzz Aldrin. After 15 years in uniform, he resigned his commission to write full time. Hollywood beckoned--he scripted one of Robert Redford's early hits, Downhill Racer--but Salter eventually retreated to Colorado and New York's Long Island to concentrate on his meticulously crafted novels and short fiction. (A collection, Dusk...
...here.' What rubbish!" Vasily angrily wadded up the paper and tossed it out an open window, not noticing that one edge had caught fire from the hot plate. Determined now that he would indeed have tea, he filled the kettle and jammed it into the oven, extinguishing the pilot light with spillage from the spout...
...time and place of the crash as well as the passenger list, has a number of choices. Does he thread backward, exploring the chilly ironies of Fate's dice rolling? Forward, tracing a bizarre linkage of events unexpectedly tumbled into motion? Does he find sabotage, corporate greed, a pilot who memorized an eye chart he could no longer read...