Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Another pilot that never became a series-this one stars Mercedes McCambridge as a college sorority housemother...
...After reading your thorough report on Flight 901A [July 30], I feel compelled as a professional pilot to make these comments: The CAB concedes that the compass may have been 15° off, that the altimeter may have been off, and that someone on the ground falsified a weather report. Yet the board concludes that Cap tain Norris and his passengers are dead because of his error! Captain Norris' only errors seem to have been believing that a federally licensed mechanic would fix a compass and/or an altimeter, that a person on the ground would tell him the truth...
Surface Slots. On the ground, Lee Norman, NASA parasail-project engineer, sat at his instrument panel, per forming functions by remote control that might have been handled by on board astronauts. With remarkable ease, Norman sailed his descending craft for ward and back, left and right, like a pilot looking for a place to land. Control was maintained by pulling on shroud lines that closed or opened slots around the surface of the parasail. With slots closed on one side, air spilled out the other, acting, in effect, as an in efficient jet engine, shoving the chute and its cargo...
...winning personal injury suits (fee: up to 50% of the judgment) that the delegates spent eight hours a day buying such trial props as plastic skeletons and listening to such maestros as Melvin Belli, who lovingly lectured on his tactics in winning a $215,000 judgment for a Navy pilot's widow against the manufacturer of a helicopter that crashed during military operations...
Monsignor Francis J. Lally, editor of The Pilot, newspaper of the Boston archdiocese, will speak about "Social Action in the Christian Community" at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Catholic Center, 20 Arrow...