Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lima, Peru, where low-hanging clouds are a constant fret to pilots, the skies were encouragingly clear when a Boeing 707 flight of Brazil's Varig Airlines approached from Rio de Janeiro. Carrying a crew of 17 and 80 passengers, it swung out over the ocean, circling to lose altitude for landing, blinked its landing lights in a traditional "all's well" greeting to a passing Air France jet. Minutes later it smashed into the 2,400-ft. Las Cruces hill and burst into flames. All were killed, including 18 Americans. For Varig the crash marred an enviable...
...engine Scandia transport flown by Brazil's Vasp Airlines in the crowded air corridor between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. All 27 aboard both planes were killed, their bodies strewn along more than two miles of rugged mountain terrain. The smaller plane's pilot had strayed into a lane reserved for scheduled commercial airliners...
...fate has odd ways. And so, in Windsor Locks, Conn., Pilot Clifford...
...eyes veil when he goes home to the young woman he is living with. She is charming and she loves him, but he thinks only of the little girl. When the young woman finds out who her rival is, she is appalled. Her lover is a sick man, a pilot who crashed in Indo-China and has lived in limbo ever since, his memory gone and his imagination prey to fearful fancies...
...capsule is far from a practical factory, but Aerojet is now building a pilot plant that will circulate a mixture of ammonia and uranium oxide through a nuclear reactor. If Aerojet calculations are correct, the plant should produce hydrazine, which now costs $1.50-$2 per lb., for as little...