Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After more than 300 uneventful round trips between Caracas and New York, Venezuelan Airline Pilot Henry Peter Bush, 42, a bachelor and an uncured romanticist, was bored. He wanted to give up flying some day and write adventure stories. He took his accumulated leave and set off on a round-the-world trip (Europe, the Middle East. India). Last week he turned up in Tokyo with a headline-making story right out of Terry and the Pirates. He had just come back, he said, from flying 350 miles into Red China to bring out the 13-year...
Airman Bush said the adventure began when a fellow passenger on a Bangkok-Hong Kong commercial airline flight confided to him: "I've been contacted to find a pilot to fly someone out of China." The passenger, said Bush, turned out to be a British travel agent, based in Bangkok, by the name of Mike Sullivan. Pilot Bush and his new friend continued in time-tested fashion: they met a "beautiful Chinese girl" in a Hong Kong restaurant, and she begged them to undertake an "errand of mercy" to save the boy, who was being held as a hostage...
...helicopter pilots, all-weather blind flying without ground guidance at the landing site has been a long-sought goal. Last week in Dallas, the goal was reached by Bell Aviation helicopter division and Bendix Aviation, which successfully tested an "electronic road map" that tells a pilot exactly where he is within a 100-sq.-mi. area. Using the landing system, the helicopter took off and flew to within 20 ft. of its destination without the pilot's being able...
Picking up steady impulses sent out by a master and two slave radio transmitters on the ground, a 40-lb. receiving unit in the cockpit computed the helicopter's position by triangulation. On a stationary navigational chart of the area, the pilot watched a moving pen track his course. For commercial pilots in crowded urban areas, the system promised to permit helicopter service no matter what the weather...
...makes 500 cups of hot tea or 400 glasses of iced tea an hour. Teamen see a potential market for the $850 machine in 241,000 high-volume restaurants, note that tea is one of the most lucrative restaurant items, with iced tea grossing an 85% profit. Using a pilot model, one restaurant boosted hot tea sales 125%, iced...