Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hugs on the Balcony. Egypt was left with 65 pilots (only 33 Suez-seasoned). Could they and a gradually trained group of volunteer pilots handle the flow of ships and the tricky 103 miles of water without stalling traffic or blocking the canal? At 2:30 Saturday morning the first full convoy of 13 ships pulled out of Port Said with Egyptian pilots. "Give us more ships; we'll take them through," shouted one pilot as he took his tanker into the cut. A second convoy of 29, the largest in months, headed north from the Red Sea entrance...
...flying as low as possible to keep below the enemy's radar. The atom bomb under its belly has been set to explode in the desired manner, at a predetermined altitude, or after actually penetrating the ground. The LABS apparatus has been cranked full of information, and the pilot has been briefed to head for a landmark just short of the target. As he approaches it, he levels and steadies the plane's flight and flicks a switch. LABS takes charge of the airplane; it pulls the plane up in a climb so steep that the pilot almost...
...even more spectacular type of loft-bombing is used when there is no good landmark to sight on near the target. In such cases, the pilot sets his LABS apparatus for "over the shoulder" bombing, and pulls up into his climb when he is directly over the target. LABS does not release the bomb until the climbing curve has progressed a little beyond the vertical. When the bomb leaves the airplane, it rises in an almost vertical trajectory. It is not quite vertical, however. To compensate for the horizontal distance that the airplane covered after it passed over the target...
Both United Air Lines and American Airlines were negotiating last week with Collins to equip their entire fleets with the alarms, at a cost of about $6,000 to $8,000 each. Within two years Collins plans to start installing the device, which will automatically alert the pilot when another aircraft comes within two miles, show him the position of the intruding plane through a system of lights. By 1959 Collins expects to have an improved model that will show the pilot which way to maneuver in order to avert a collision, may even do the whole job automatically...
Otherwise, Satellite is rocketshipshape with searching dialogue ("You knew the rocket was my job when you married me"), a crisis (the bomb sticks to the ship's hull), an addled scientist (Donald Wolfit), and a final clinch between Reporter Maxwell and craggy-browed Pilot Kieron Moore. After 85 harrowing minutes Satellite makes port, leaving the corn barrier sadly shattered...