Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pilot Everest climbed aboard the B-50, waved to the waiting crew, sat down behind the pilots. Engines rumbling, then roaring, the B50 gathered speed, rose into the brightening sky. Everest waited until the B50 had labored to 30,000 ft., snugged down helmet and oxygen mask for the last time, then walked aft and let himself down into the cockpit of the silent...
...position, and Pete Everest had swiftly checked instruments, controls, oxygen. Into the mike in his mask he began to count the seconds before the drop: "Five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one. Drop me, dad!" The bomber pilot pulled a lever, and the X-2 plummeted away...
...late July leaked out at the convention of the Air Force Association in New Orleans. Lieut. Colonel Everest was on his way to a new assignment at the Armed Forces Staff College. Everest, a veteran of more than 14 flying years, was not bothered by the fact that another pilot would soon be flying his plane in altitude tests perhaps at speeds faster than his record. "I've accomplished my mission at Edwards." the world's fastest man told his parents back in Fairmont, W. Va., where he decided as a kid to become a pilot...
Britain's aviation industry last week was taking one of its heaviest shellackings since the Battle of Britain. The walloping came from a wartime R.A.F. squadron leader named William A. Waterton, who later became a Paris-London speed-record holder (1947) and chief test pilot of Gloster Aircraft for seven postwar years. In the past two years, as aviation correspondent for London's Daily Express, Waterton has seldom concealed his conviction that British planemakers have allowed their aircraft to lag farther behind U.S. and Russian planes...
...Fearful that the industry will be nationalized, they are less concerned with turning out fast airplanes than with turning a quick profit. As a result, the industry is shackled by incompetent, underpaid employees, overlapping programs and antiquated factories that look like "back-alley garages" beside U.S. aircraft plants. Said Pilot Waterton: "We have tried to muddle through by guess and by God. Britain [is] almost an also-ran in the aircraft stakes...