Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight training. He won his wings on Sept. 15, 1954-just four months after the French defeat in Indo-China. Ky came back to South Viet Nam with a French wife and the command of a transport squadron. By the time he was 25, the hard-boiled "hot rock" pilot was in charge of Saigon's sprawling Tan Son Nhut air force base. From there, Ky jumped to his first look at the U.S. -six months at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Field, Ala. Brief as it was, the tour permitted Ky to learn colloquial English...
...Stream. The lethal edge of the storm was a savage 50-60 knot gale. In rural Maryland, gusts blew a rescue helicopter to the ground, killing the pilot, after an attempt to airlift an expectant mother to a hospital. (Mother and baby survived.) In central New York, two people were found dead in their car 300 ft. from the warm refuge of a house that they could not even see in the white glare...
...took a fling at reaping some of those riches sat last week in a maximum-security cell in Bombay's city prison. He is Daniel H. Walcott, 39, a broad-shouldered, persuasive Texan whose profile is known to readers of Interpol circulars the world over. Pilot and swashbuckler, he operates under at least four aliases and has been charged in half a dozen countries with a variety of violations, from running an illegal transatlantic passenger airline to swindling and espionage. Says an Interpol official: "Mr. Walcott knows how to be a very good...
...meet him on a beach 50 miles south of Bombay was not there, and the plane's nose wheel collapsed on landing, bending the propellers in the sand. Undismayed, Walcott coolly ordered the local police to guard the plane while he and the co-pilot caught a bus to Bombay, taking along two suitcases full of watches. In Bombay, Walcott apparently quietly disposed of the watches and picked up the second pilot. Then all three men bluffed their way into the line of debarking passengers at Bombay's International Airport. In that way, they were able...
...Hugh Lecky, 34, a "helipadre" who last summer rode a chopper to Ba Gia, a remote outpost that was under Viet Cong attack. With a chaplain's kit on his left hip and a medical corpsman's bag on his right, Lecky ministered to a dying helicopter pilot, then turned to helping others-even though he was wounded by a mortar shell...