Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Valkyrie 2's luck ran out. The cobra-cowled bird lunged into a cloud-flecked morning sky from California's Edwards Air Force Base with Alvin White, 47, North American Aviation's chief B70 test pilot, at the controls. After 2 hr. 15 min. of routine tests, the B70 readied for a less serious assignment, a formation flight with four other jet craft whose engines were made by General Electric Corp. Aim of the maneuver: color photographs for G.E., a Madison Avenue routine that routinely wins Pentagon approval...
...Your Tail Is Gone." Up to the Valkyrie's starboard side sidled a needle-nosed F-104 Starfighter flown by the nation's-and perhaps the world's-finest test pilot, Joseph A. Walker of NASA, who in 25 flights in the X-15 rocket plane had flown higher (354,200 ft.) and faster (4,104 m.p.h.) than man had ever gone in a winged ship. Walker, who was preparing to join the B70 program, had been flying "chase" behind the Valkyrie to observe it in operation. Next, an Air Force F-5 fighter-bomber tucked into...
...television coverage of its splashdown. Cameras on the deck of the Wasp picked up Gemini as soon as it loomed below the clouds, photographed its recovery by the carrier, and sent the telecast live via Early Bird satellite into millions of American and European homes. For Stafford and Co-pilot Eugene Cernan, who came "right down the pickle barrel"-within four miles of the Wasp-it was a rewarding finish to a flight that had been marred by failure and frustration...
...land, out of their minds, in New York's Bellevue Hospital; two LSD-using youths were discovered in Hollywood last October devouring grass and tree bark; a college student went berserk on an airliner bound from Los Angeles to San Francisco, tried to force his way into the pilot's cockpit before being subdued, a young male user in Los Angeles tried to stop a car on Wilshire Boulevard by saying "Halt," was hit and killed...
Died. General William H. Blanchard, 50, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff and No. 2 in command, a heavy-bomber pilot who pioneered in the daringly low-level B-29 raids against Japan in World War II, and as Curtis LeMay's operations officer planned the first A-bomb drop on Hiroshima, then spent 15 years helping to build the Strategic Air Command, all of which earned him four stars at the age of 48; of a heart attack; in Washington...