Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That jet came in so low I could see the pilot," recalls Benjamin Washington...
...Special Fund is considering a $4 million grant to Cuba for agricultural development. A pilot project to last six months and cost $100,000, has already been approved. The United States provides roughly a quarter of the Special Fund's money, and there are members of Congress who do not regard Cuban agriculture as a suitable investment for a million U.S. dollars...
...four-place Cessna 180 descended toward a landing at Wyoming's Minuteman Missile Site B6. Down and down it went, faster and faster. Too fast. One of the passengers leaned toward veteran Pilot Edgar Van Keuren. The pilot's eyes were open-but sightless. He was dead of a stroke...
...Like Ants." On the twelfth day, the three men reached the treacherous "black board"-a 230-ft.-high cliff of solid slate almost impervious to drills and pitons. "They look like ants crawling up a building," reported one pilot. "But they wave and seem all right." Cautiously, the climbers eased their way through the "great cathedral"-a double-faced outcropping of rock. At last, after 16 days of suspended existence, Siegert reported: "We feel solid ground beneath our soles." He was on a ledge, 300 ft. below the summit, that measured just 1 ft. wide...
...customized treatment truckers demand, however, stems from the jobs their trucks must perform and their desire to keep maintenance costs down. Before placing an order for 160 International Harvester truck tractors, engineers of Charlotte's Johnson Motor Lines-one of the biggest U.S. truck fleets-tested two pilot models for a year, then asked for changes from windshield wipers to heaters. It was partly because Bell Telephone, the world's biggest commercial truck customer (8,800 purchased a year), wanted a Volkswagen-styled side-door compact truck that Ford and Chevy two years ago produced their copies...