Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sixth Fleet every carrier pilot is "special-weapons qualified," meaning that he is trained to handle atomic bombs. As of now, Admiral Brown's attack squadrons, paced by prop-driven Douglas AD Skyraiders, can deliver a low-level atomic attack at ranges up to 1,000 miles. Late this month the 60,000-ton Forrestal will relieve Coral Sea, bringing to the Mediterranean the Douglas A3D Skywarrior, a 600-m.p.h. twin-jet bomber with a range that can reach all the way to Moscow, if necessary, from anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...father's plea and on probation. This shocked him into hard work and he finally graduated-far, far down the list-in 1921. After an assignment in 1924 to the Navy's first aircraft carrier Langley, he turned to naval aviation. Not long afterwards Fighter Pilot Brown won Navy fame by scoring 60 hits out of 60 shots on a towed sleeve in five passes, a Navy gunnery record, and he advanced with the Navy from the old Liberty-engined torpedo plane ("It could make 70 m.p.h. going downhill") to the dive bombers and fighters of World...
Then, with frostbite already showing on Dufek's nose, the party stomped back into the airplane, its engines still turning over. But when Pilot Conrad Shinn gunned his engines and fired four JATO (jet assist) bottles for takeoff, the R4D stuck fast, its skis frozen to the icy surface. Only by blasting off his eleven remaining JATO bottles did Shinn wrench the plane loose and stagger into the thin air at well below normal take-off speed. Back at McMurdo, Dufek ordered establishment of the Siple camp delayed for two weeks ("If it was too cold...
...athletic 64, Swigert began his impressive business career in 1915, just out of Harvard, took time out to become a pilot in World War I, and in 1929 founded his own firm, the Hyster Co., which now employs 2,000, manufactures hoists, cranes and similar equipment. What does President Swigert think of next year's prospects for U.S. business? "I would be surprised if 1957 were as high as 1956," said he cautiously, "but I wouldn't be too surprised if I were wrong...
Died. James Crawford (Jimmy) Angel, 57, crash-scarred oldtime bush pilot who joined the Canadian Air Corps at 16 in World War I, afterward soldiered in China, stunted in Hollywood and in 1935 discovered Angel Fall, the world's highest (3,212 ft.) waterfall, while chasing down a gold mine over Venezuela; after six months in a coma following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was recuperating after a plane crash; in Balboa...