Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night was a pilot's dream, clear and bright with waxing moon glowing yellow in the sky. In the tower at New York's Idlewild Airport, controlmen expertly ticked off the routine comings and goings of scores of aircraft. Shortly after 12:30 a.m., the routine broke: an LAV (for Linea Aeropostal Venezolana) Super Constellation, droning southward from Idlewild across the black Atlantic toward Caracas, was in trouble. Her position: 38° 10 min. north, 72° 08 min. west (160 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast). "Returning direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable...
Long Count. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett naval air station, the emergency word was passed. Lieut. Commander Frederick J. Hancox, a Coast Guard ready rescue pilot, was jangled from his bed. With his four crewmen, he scrambled for his twin-engined Grumman Albatross, was airborne at 1:02 a.m. Grinding out over the sea, Hancox called into his lip mike: "Hello Yankee Victor Charlie Alpha Mike Sierra,* This is Coast Guard 2124 . . . Do you read? . . . Mike Sierra, this is 2124, request a long count from you on this frequency. Over." Back came the long "one-two-three-four . . ." from...
...miles from you . . . we're turning on our landing lights. Over." "Roger," said Plata, "we have you in sight now, 2124. We have the nose light on. We're flashing it on and off. Do you see us?" Replied Hancox: "Affirmative." Dumping Gas. Mike Sierra's Pilot Plata now had a severe weight problem: under rigid Civil Aeronautics Board safety regulations, a Super Constellation must not touch the ground unless it weighs no more than 110,000 Ibs.; to land at greater weight is to jeopardize aircraft and passengers. The procedure for reducing weight in emergency cases...
...Flicker of Flame." Said Pilot Hancox later: "There was a flicker of flame from under the right wing. Then it became a ball of fire and he fell. I followed him down and dropped a float light in the middle of the burning gasoline, and began to sweep the area. I would have landed if I had spotted anybody. I didn't drop parachute flares because the moon and the fire itself gave me plenty of light...
...Pilot, official publication of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston, issued a stern warning to the girls about their summer dress. Slacks are not yet being worn to Mass, "but already young ladies and some not quite so young," said The Pilot, "are coming to the sacraments especially Saturday afternoon confession attired in this most unbecoming manner . . . Let those more competent to judge say whether or not there is ever a time when young ladies should wear trousers-the fact is that many are wearing them. Whatever they may lack in dignity anc comeliness, they are modest...