Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ernst finds this time margin so narrow that the flight was "extremely improbable," if not impossible. (Government investigators say Murphy was gone 8½ to nine hours-plenty of time.) Ernst offers a theory of his own: Murphy was a freelance pilot, subject to big temptations "to smuggle nylons, drugs, guns . . . people"; the destination of his secret flight was rebellious Cuba, not the Dominican Republic. Ernst's proof came from "confidential sources" in Dictator Fulgencio Batista's Cuba. To back up Batista (who got five planeloads of arms in March from Trujillo), Ernst solemnly presented an affidavit from...
...case stood exactly where it had before. Galindez is still listed as a missing person by New York police; Murphy is dead, and so is the Dominican pilot who admittedly killed him; the FBI still wants Espaillat to waive his diplomatic immunity for questioning. Sydney Baron, the ex-Tammany Hall pressagent who acted as go-between for Trujillo and Ernst, said that the inquiry was "very comprehensive and expensive," that both Ernst and Baron would probably get more than their original guarantees, boosting the cost past the first estimate of $160,000. Trujillo doubtless will cheerfully...
...social workers of the Volunteers change from a band of eager amateurs to an organization of highly trained, specialized men and women, working more and more closely with Government agencies. He approves of this pattern. Says he: "I can see the private agencies in the role of developing pilot programs and experimentation. Then, if the experiments prove successful, the Government would pick them up as it has done in the rehabilitation of the handicapped...
...Tactical Air Command at Langley A.F.B., just inside the Virginia capes. Assigned to the project was Lieut. Colonel Devol ("Rock") Brett, skipper of the 355th Fighter Squadron and son of World War II's Lieut. General George H. Brett, now retired. West Pointer Brett, 34, veteran jet pilot, had hit the zero-gravity state for a few seconds on countless occasions, especially at the beginning of an outside loop, but he had never before been asked to try for zero gravity and hold it as long as possible. So the mission developed into a new experience for both pilot...
...over too soon. Pilot Brett had been too busy with his controls and indicators, and I had been too bemused by the otherworldliness of the phenomenon, to time our first excursion into weightlessness. Colonel Brett pulled up the nose again, regained altitude, and within a minute or so was asking: "Ready to try it again?" Down we dived and up into another pullout. Up went the g needle. I felt a crushing force, and then the ineffable relief of subgravity and the euphoria of zero gravity. This time it lasted longer. Again I toyed with the stringless yoyo, so delightedly...