Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group hopes to open the first of the centers this spring in Holmes Country, in the north central part of the state. He said a MCHR nurse has been there for two months planning the pilot program...
...sonic booms over a three-hour stretch. So well did the buildings bear the booms that a disappointed CBS camera crew left before the show was over. Then, for that inevitable one last picture, a Starfighter was ordered to make a low-level pass at subsonic speeds. But the pilot miscalculated, the speed indicator climbed, and the results were spectacularly embarrassing. Just as FAA Deputy Administrator Gordon Bain was answering a reporter's question about the psychological reaction to sonic booms, a walloping blast shook the walls, Bain and the newsmen...
...World War II bomber pilot. Ryan flew 58 combat missions in Europe, on the final one lost his left index finger to flak; in SAC circles he is fondly, but not to his face, known as "Three-Finger Jack." In 1946 he helped plan U.S. atomic tests at Bikini atoll, then joined SAC, which was just being formed. With the exception of a year's tour as Air Force inspector general, he has been a SAC man ever since, most recently serving as Power's deputy commander. He knows all the tools of his trade, is an expert...
Died. Colonel William Draper, 44, Eisenhower's pilot during eight presidential years, who almost always brought Ike winging in on time despite snowstorms, tardy politicians and small-town airstrips, logging over 200, 000 miles in the Columbine and 707; by his own hand (hanging), probably a result of despondency since a heart attack grounded him last year; in Camp Springs...
...North Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos and into South Viet Nam. Last week, three days apart, two U.S. jets were knocked down by Communist guns near the murkily marked "panhandle" where North Viet Nam forms a narrow corridor between Laos and the sea. One pilot died, while the second was rescued by helicopter, and a typical Laotian muddle ensued...