Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recognized as one of the nation's most astute political managers, but his cold, seemingly superior personality offended many voters. Mecham, a slight man with a folksy twang, came across better. Born on a Utah farm, he was a high school salutatorian, a World War II P-51 pilot who was shot down over Germany and held prisoner, a self-made businessman who built up a 100-employee Pontiac dealership in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale. He teaches in a Mormon Sunday school, has seven children...
This time the U.S. was ready for the Russian screams before they came. The pilot of a U-2 reconnaissance plane, returning from a mission, reported that his plane had strayed over the fortified Russian island of Sakhalin, off the Siberian coast and reaching down to within 26 miles of Japan. Word was swiftly passed to Washington-and, with the warning in hand, it was barely 3½ hours after the inevitable Russian protest note arrived that the U.S. reply was written, approved by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and President Kennedy, and delivered to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin...
...reach altitudes over 90,000 ft. with electronic gear to spy out defenses from far away, plus equipment to collect airborne radioactivity from Soviet nuclear tests. But the crowded U-2 carries few sophisticated navigational aids, and, to complicate the pilot's task, the plane, because of its gliderlike design, is easily blown off course. These factors forced the Air Force pilot to veer over Sakhalin...
Died. Eleven executives of the Ashland Oil & Refining Co., of Ashland. Ky.. and their pilot and copilot, when the company's twin-engined Lockheed Lodestar spun into a pasture and burst into flames; near Ravenna, Ohio. Ashland is the nation's 20th largest oil company, with sales of $312 million last year; it was the worst industrial-aircraft accident in U.S. history...
Died. Kenneth Walter Tyler, 51, test pilot, nerveless Hollywood stuntman and soldier of fortune, who intentionally crashed 144 planes for the movies in the '30s, flew for the Spanish Loyalists in 1936, downed 22 Japanese planes with the Flying Tigers in World War II - but always insisted his most harrowing experience was flying the 347 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles upside down; in the crash of his 1940 Waco biplane, while doing low-altitude stunts; in Henderson...