Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who had a telephone and who stayed put all day." When one of these treasures (a gas-station owner, waterworks superintendent or hotel manager) was found, they tried to persuade him to report visibility, ceiling, and rain or snow every 90 minutes. Sometimes Rossby would borrow a pilot and airplane from the Army Air Corps and buzz a remote small town. When all the inhabitants were craning their necks at the glamorous flying machine, he would land in the flattest field, parade into town in an air fan's car and confer with the mayor. The result...
Died. Vice Admiral Ralph Andrew Ofstie, 59, bemedaled onetime hot Navy pilot (he set three speed records for seaplanes in a 1924 meet), later commander of naval forces in the Far East (1951-52), who served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group for the 1946 Bikini tests, in 1949 declared that strategic atomic bombing was little more than "random mass slaughter," militarily unsound and morally questionable; after long illness; in Bethesda...
...University of Pennsylvania have been digging at the site of ancient Gordium, capital of the Phrygians, who ruled much of Asia Minor up to the yth century B.C. Dr. Rodney S. Young, leader of the dig, tells how an earthen mound near Gordium was probed with an oil-well pilot drill. Off to one side, presumably to foil grave robbers not equipped with modern scientific gadgets, was the tomb of a high-born Phrygian child who died about 2,600 years ago. The remains of five baby teeth were sifted out of the dust, and a bronze belt proved just...
...deadly Falcon air-to-air guided missile, Hughes Aircraft Co. has squeezed a guidance system equal to five TV sets into a space 6 in. by 10 in. World War II's 200-lb. automatic pilot is obsolete; a new model weighs only 75 Ibs. and performs six times as many functions. One item on the way: a small automatic pilot for helicopters, which are so difficult to fly that pilots sometimes pray for an extra hand. U.S. Time Corp., which makes 400, liny gyroscopes a month for guided missiles, is working on a plan to combine them with...
Bucking Airplane. Air Force authorities say that they know pretty well what happened, but that they cannot give much detail without disclosing precious information about the X-2's behavior and design. The broad facts, however, are that both pilot and ship performed far too well. Captain Apt had been told not to watch his machmeter, the common speed-measuring instrument. His accelerometer, the key speed instrument in this case, could not be read directly in miles per hour. So, when he reached peak speed, he probably did not know how fast he was going. After his engine...