Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer deserves to be in any list of Southern editors who have "preached moderation for many years" [March 19]. Nor should the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot-a Pulitzer winner for guiding school desegregation-be overlooked...
Rejected as too young, he worked in a factory for two years, then went into training in the Red air force where he fought as a pilot for the rest of the war. He was studying at the air force academy when he was selected for cosmonaut training, and he astonished space physicians with the punishment he could take in centrifuge tests. At one time they stopped the machine for fear that he had gone too far. But Belyayev was undamaged...
...first orbit, command-pilot Virgil T. Grissom and pilot John W. Young employed rockets to decrease the speed of the Gemini 3 capsule, causing it to descend into an orbit closer to the earth. The next time around, the pilots engaged rockets to push the Gemini 3 from side to side across the plane of the orbit...
Good Haul. The other U.S. pilots were picked up in equally daring operations. An Air Force helicopter based at Nakhon Phanom in northeast Thailand zipped over to Tchepone, a Laotian town overrun by Pathet Lao and Viet Minh regulars, picked up the pilot of a downed U.S. Thunderchief from the jungle. In a night operation inside North Viet Nam, another hovering helicopter used electronic strobe lights and flares to find a U.S. pilot in the jungle and rescue...
...shot down over the tangled jungle near Quangkhe. Sighting a signal fire that the captain had resourcefully lighted on the bank of a stream, one Huskie descended to 100 ft., hauled the captain into the chopper with a steel cable and winch. As he scrambled gratefully aboard, the rescued pilot cried to the crew, "I love you, I love...