Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Kennedy somberly predicted, would suffer losses in carrying out his decision to force Soviet missiles out of Cuba. And last week came confirmation that the first such casualty was Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson Jr., 35, a U-2 pilot of Greenville, S.C. He was flying a photo mission some 70,000 ft. above Cuba when an antiaircraft missile -made and presumably manned by Russians-knocked his plane out of the sky. He was one of the pilots whose reconnaissance photos had convinced the President that U.S. security was endangered in the Caribbean...
...finished his work with us." said a spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, announcing that U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers, 33, resigned last month. His new job: testing overhauled U-2s for Lockheed Aircraft. His salary? "Same as any other test pilot," said a Lockheed official. "They make from $10,000 to $20,000 a year, depending on experience." Powers, feels Lockheed, has plenty of experience...
When a Gemini capsule is about to re-enter the atmosphere, it will be positioned for retrofire by computers on the ground. The pilot will rearm the retrorockets, which will be fired automatically when the proper time comes. During the capsule's long fiery curve through the atmosphere its astronauts will have a slight degree of control. By firing attitude rockets and tilting the capsule, they will be able to give it aerodynamic lift and so control to some extent the point where it approaches the ground. When it reaches about 48,000 ft the pilot will release...
Rendezvous. Gemini's primary purpose is to practice rendezvous in earth orbit, a job of navigation and maneuver that will be controlled largely by ground-based computers. Only after the Gemini capsule and its target satellite have come within sight or radar range of each other will the pilot take charge. Even then a small computer will tell him how to make the two courses intersect. During the final approach, he will really "fly" the capsule. When sufficient experience has been accumulated, he will mate capsule with target, perhaps orbiting with it and taking advantage of its fuel stores...
...computer as rapidly and efficiently as a secretary drumming on a typewriter. He will need the know-how necessary for interpreting the readings of new, esoteric instruments. For this futuristic job, an M.I.T. doctorate may soon be more of a recommendation than many years' experience as a test pilot...