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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course was inspired by a former Navy pilot, Frank Hazelwood, 35, who moved to Atlanta three years ago and simply decided he wanted to do something for the schools his two daughters attend. He volunteered to teach a non-credit experimental flying course twice weekly after school hours. School officials were surprised when 70 kids tried to enroll even though Hazelwood could handle only eleven. One was a dropout who begged to be readmitted when he heard about the course, soon began carrying his slide-rule flight computer around school, proudly solving math problems for friends. He got his high...
...idea first occurred to Navy Pilot James R. Conrey in 1960, while he was jockeying his plane through a tricky crosswind landing at Lincoln, Neb. The field-like many military and small private airports-had only one runway, leaving him little choice in the direction of his approach and landing. As he struggled with the controls, Conrey longed for a landing strip that would always allow him to approach into the wind-no matter what its direction. Why not a circular runway? he asked himself. With great single-mindedness, he polished his idea, found an ideal test site-the banked...
Into a Hole. Little additional pilot training would be required. Navy pilots who landed at G.M.'s Mesa track felt at first that they were "flying down into a hole"; they were uneasy about touching down at an angle on the sloping surface on the runway. But they became oriented after only one or two landings, and reported that the runway tended to correct some of their errors in landing speed, degree of bank and point of touchdown...
...route, could yet be grounded by Moscow, but the Japanese appear to have bowed to all major Russian conditions. State-owned Japan Air Lines and the Soviets' Aeroflot would jointly operate a weekly flight using giant Russian TU-114 turboprop planes, Russian cockpit crews (with a Japanese pilot sitting in as a face-saver) and mixed Soviet-Japanese cabin crews. Because of Russian sensitivity about Siberian military installations, Japan's 707 and DC-8 jets would at first be confined to the Tokyo-Kharbarovsk leg; after two years, the Russians would consider allowing J.A.L. craft...
Died. General Walter Campbell Sweeney Jr., 56, recently retired boss of the Tactical Air Command (1961-65), a much-decorated bomber pilot (Midway, Tokyo) who took over TAC at the height of the Berlin Wall crisis, turned it from a relatively small outfit into a major arm of U.S. airpower with 1,400 jet fighters, its own tankers and transports, and the ability to perform any tactical mission from the 1964 Congo missionary rescue to ground support in Viet Nam; of cancer; at Homestead Air Force Base...