Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, among Grocer Bibbia's fellow sleighriders were such visitors as the Marquis de la Falaise and Liechtenstein's Prince Constantine. Among them, however, there was only one man considered a sure bet to do better than the Italian. He was a Canadian World War II bomber pilot named Doug Connor, holder of just about every record on the Cresta books and winner of nearly every other Cresta cup this year...
...have been some delays in the nuclear-power program, but insisted that on the whole progress has been excellent. Strauss predicted that "five, and perhaps six" reactors, using varied methods of converting atomic energy to electricity, will be delivering power before this year's end. Most are AEC pilot models, but one is the big (100,000 kw.) AEC-Duquesne Light Co. reactor at Shippingport, Pa. In all, said Strauss, "at least 18" commercial reactors are under discussion, specific negotiation or construction in the U.S., and U.S. companies have announced plans for building seven more abroad...
Airmen and scientists long ago conquered the problem of flight at supersonic speeds, but they are still wrestling with the jet-age problem of bailing out. Both the Navy and Air Force have been betting that as speeds rise, the pilot who bails out will have to be protected from the killing blast of the airstream by a detachable, parachute-fitted cockpit that can be blasted away from the crippled aircraft. But no aircraft now being made is designed to take a capsule cockpit...
Taking a simpler approach to the problem, the Air Force and Lockheed Aircraft last week announced solid progress on a new "flying seat." Using the seat, a pilot in trouble pulls a D-shaped ring between his feet. In a second his head, arms and legs are lashed into place and he is catapulted downward out of the plane. Once free of the cockpit, the seat projects an 8 in. by 5 in. steel plate on a 4-ft. boom in front of the pilot, shielding him from the force of the airstream much as an auto-hood deflector diverts...
...Wilder for a share of the picture's profits-this excellent film takes as its story line the simple, glorious trajectory of the flight itself. The essential facts of Lindbergh's early life-he was the son of a well-known Minnesota Congressman, barnstormed as a boy pilot, made top of his class as an Army flying cadet, was flying the mail between St. Louis and Chicago when he got the big idea-are presented in artful flashbacks...