Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book opens, the Plaza is shaken to the roots of its potted palms because Eloise and her downtrodden Nahnee are summoned to Paris by Mother for a holiday "to get roses in our cheeks." Somehow Eloise manages to cross the Atlantic ("Actually the pilot has nothing to do, so you can help him count the comets'') with 37 pieces of luggage, including two cans of kippers. Once in Paris, Eloise finds the possibilities unlimited, and her range may be gathered from this memorable confession: "I toujours tweak the Apollo Belvedere whenever I leave the Louvre...
...There he piloted Ambassador William C. Bullitt in anO-38F observation plane for hours over targets that his Air Force was later to lock in-Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa, the Crimea. There he made his first headlines. While White was flying Bullitt into Leningrad one day, the )0-38F engine iced up, whereupon White pancaked into a field, hit a few rough spots, went over on his back. Ambassador Bullitt wired President Roosevelt: "Landed upside down. Got out right side up." Later the Russians gave White a Soviet military pilot's license. ("Tommy," quips a Washington...
...LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining, the wise old pilot who led the USAF from props to jets. There Tommy White does his broad-gauge best with what he has. But nobody in the Pentagon knows better than he that he has his problems too. Among them...
This week, even as the Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas awaits its third flight test at Cape Canaveral, Fla., a $40 million industry to make Atlas is already in pilot production; the SAC teams that will fire Atlas are already in training at Air Force Missileman Major General Ben A. Schriever's headquarters in California. The Atlas' first field unit was recently activated as the ist ballistic Missile Division, U.S.A.F. The argument between the bomber generals and the missile generals has been overrated. Says Bomber General LeMay: '.'We're not wedded to the bomber...
...President put on a pressurized G-suit and parachute. Emrick and the F-102's pilot, Captain William H. ( "Scotty") Scott, helped him into the cockpit, sand through an interpreter explained the workings of the ejection seat. "Be careful," said the interpreter to Scotty, "we've only got one President." Replied the pilot: "Yes, and we've only got one Scotty...