Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taipei the dashing 34-year-old ex-fighter pilot had easily charmed the Nationalists, already flattered by his visit, with a show of boyish derring-do and conviviality, and had delighted merchants with purchases of trinkets and gifts for the folks back home, including 60 long-playing record albums and three pairs of blue jeans. On a tour of Kung Kuan airbase, 80 miles outside Taipei, Ky got permission from Chinese brass to take a test spin in an American F-104, spent five minutes diving and banking, then taxied smartly up to the reviewing stand erected in his honor...
...days. Fuel cells running low on fuel, liquid hydrogen boiling uselessly away, telemetering equipment turned suddenly unreliable, fire near the launch pad, thunderstorms aloft−all seemed problems of the past. Now everything was going well; Gemini's orbit was incredibly exact. "Everything is fine," reported Command Pilot Gordon Cooper. "You are go! You are go!" exulted Astronaut Jim McDivitt, capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center near Houston...
Next it is Charlotte and her husband Pierre, an airplane pilot who has just flown in from Germany with a noted reporter. Pierre invites the fellow to the house. At dinner, Charlotte and Pierre go through domestic cliches for the newsman's benefit: the cute house, the nice neighborhood, the exceptional TV set. Afterwards everyone has a monologue−Pierre on the importance of memory, Charlotte on the importance of living in the present, the journalist on the importance of intelligence. Then Charlotte and Pierre go to bed and run through the predictably tedious anatomical rituals and the same...
From the earliest days of aviation, when the whistle of wind in guy wires gave the trained pilot as much information as any instrument, airmen have relied on their ears to recognize the sounds of trouble. Now the roar and whine of modern jets make it hard for the human ear to detect anything but the most obvious trouble. And by then it may be too late. To give pilots and maintenance a boost. General Electric is developing a sonic analyzer that can be applied to jet engines much as a physician's stethoscope is applied to the human...
Humans First. Dental Surgeon Hodosh got the idea for implanting plastic teeth seven years ago and proposed a pilot study to authorities at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. Ordinarily such research would begin with animals, but there was no money available for such a cautious start. Dr. Hodoshen listed 25 human volunteers...