Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China last week came six of the 41 U.S. civilians due for release under the recent agreement at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 19). One was a young airline pilot; four were Roman Catholic priests, one of whom bore shackle marks. There was also Walter A. Rickett, 34, of Seattle, alumnus of the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania, who had been a Marine Corps intelligence officer on Iwo Jima. Richett had gone to China as a Fulbright scholar in 1948, and since July 1951, he had been in jail for "espionage." After meeting Walter Rickett in Hong Kong, TIME...
...Midway Airport that he forced the plane to reduce its speed. "Oh, for Christ's sake," cried Godfrey. "We certainly weren't endangering him. I merely dipped my wing to say hello. It's like tipping your hat. How close could I have been, if the pilot had to call the tower to ask the identification of my plane? All I do is say hello to a guy, and he turns you in. It makes me sick...
Even this stunt was topped by Polish-born Test Pilot Jan Zurakowski in a CF-100, a Canadian-built interceptor. The CF-100 is also too big for much stunting, but Zurakowski flew it backwards. He shot up in a vertical climb until the airplam lost speed and slid down tail first. Then he flicked it over into a normal dive. An) pilot would be hard put to think of a more dangerous stunt that can be done with ar airplane...
...sensing delicately each force that tends to divert the airplane from its proper course. A crosswind, for instance, is felt as a push from one side, and its effect is evaluated. All the deviations are "integrated" (put together and added up) by electronic computing devices. So the pilot, says Ryan, always knows where...
Airline passengers who like to take a drink aloft may soon have their spirits dashed. Pilot, steward and stewardess unions have all passed stern anti-liquor resolutions. And Massachusetts Congressman Thomas J. Lane, arguing that tipsy passengers sometimes constitute a safety threat, plans to introduce a bill at the next session of Congress to make inflight liquor service a federal offense. Last week Harold L. Pearson, president of the industry's Air Transport Association, said he had been warned by the Civil Aeronautics Board that liquor-pouring airlines may have to take "corrective steps," sent airline presidents a proposed...