Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dead Dyna-Soar. About the same time that he gave MOL to the Air Force, McNamara killed Dyna-Soar, the winged, piloted space glider on which the Air Force has already spent $400 million, and was planning to spend many hundred million more. Even if Dyna-Soar succeeded in returning to earth on glowing wings, McNamara argued, it would do little to ad vance the military use of space. The glider would have been able to stay in orbit for only a few hours; it is not likely that its pilot would have learned anything not already known from NASA...
...mere fifteen minutes out of Saigon and directly south of the capital, the three lead Hueys, bristling with rockets and machine guns, buzzed the target area; they hedge-hopped lines of foliage, hovered over huts, scrutinized the paddyfields. "Negative contact," U.S. Pilot Captain Dennis Boyle radioed to the main force, meaning no ground fire. The rest of the fleet fluttered into the zone, and while armed craft circled protectively, five "skinned" (unarmed) Hueys alighted in a clearing and disgorged 70 Vietnamese troops...
...Starfighter up to 90,000 ft. and the edge of space. Then disaster. The craft went into a flat spin and plummeted out of control. In the cockpit, Air Force Colonel Charles (Chuck) Yeager, 40, first man to fly faster than sound and currently C.O. of the Edwards test-pilot school, stayed with the violently whirling plane, trying to bring it out of the spin. Only at 6,000 ft. did he give up and eject, parachuting minutes later onto the Mojave Desert with burns on the left side of his face and neck, probably caused by ignition...
...Joneses wake up every morning at 7 to the sound of a helicopter pilot telling his friends in Radioland about the newborn traffic snarls on the turnpikes leading into town. The Joneses would much prefer waking up at 8, but they cannot turn off the radio: it is in the Smiths' apartment next door. Down the hall in 17-F live the Browns, who loathe Handel. Yet their living room is knee-deep in Water Music every night -high-decibel seepage from the Greens' stereo...
Peace Corps officials stressed that the students chosen to participate in the pilot project would be picked at random from those eligible; the other eligible candidates would still participate in the regular program. If the project is successful, the program will be expanded in 1965 and may eventually include all college juniors who have applied...