Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maritime jobs are more exacting or, under the right conditions, more rewarding, than that of a Suez pilot. The shifting, sandy banks and uncertain currents of the narrow (500 ft. at water level), man-made ditch are a constant menace to the free passage of the 40 or more ships that go through each day. To guide the ships safely through, the man at the helm must be familiar with every foot of bottom and bank, know every temperament of the current. In some parts of the Suez channel, a pilot may even have to turn his ship...
...friction-heated cockpit of a high-speed airplane has to be cooled elaborately to keep the pilot alive. If the pilot is taken out, and the craft becomes an unmanned missile, its interior must still be cooled to keep its electronic brain from dying of heat prostration. So, decided General Electric Co., heatproof electronic components should prove useful in the missile business. This week, after years of work, it showed whole electronic assemblies working efficiently, though red-hot in a glowing electric furnace...
...Stevenson's latest adventure was made to order for his self-cast role as the romantically dashing foreign correspondent who lets nothing-sometimes not even the facts-get in the way of a good story. A World War II Royal Navy flyer and jet test pilot, Stevenson has been forced out of Yugoslavia, denounced by the Peking radio for his stories after a trip through Red China, and scolded by the Canadian government for breaking a story on Canada's highly secret "flying saucer"-a saucer-shaped aircraft expected to fly 1,500 m.p.h. In Korea, where...
...Great Chance. Last week, still believing in his plan and still unable to keep silent Zarchin, 59, citizen of Israel, happily checked the calculations of another test project that may prove his point. The Israeli government had given him $270,000 to build a pilot plant in the Negev the vast, parched area in southern Israel. The plant will use water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea. "We are too poor a country to reject dreams," said one official. Only men who do nothing are always right...
...islands do they realize fully you've arrived by sea." But Okinawa almost made him eat his words. The Half Safe upset the gum-chewing rhythm of that Americanized base. "We were in the seamen's club before someone noticed I wasn't a jet pilot." Then a security officer accidentally found them. "Say, you guys just arrived? I don't want to act suspicious, but I got to ask you questions...