Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snubby nose of the broad-winged aircraft looked as if it had been flattened against the white cliffs of Dover. The propeller sprouted out of its tail like a designer's afterthought. In the cabin, the pilot rode a first cousin to a bicycle, and he was pedaling furiously. A covey of anxious friends checked his progress...
...strange craft lurched down the runway at De Havilland's Airfield in Hatfield, England, until it reached almost 20 m.p.h. Then the pilot pulled back on his handlebar control, and the plane glided all of 8 ft. into the air. Sweating profusely, 39-year-old John Wimpenny quit pedaling, and Puffin-so named because of all the puffing it took to get it in the air-wafted back to earth...
Straining for Second Wind. Racing to beat Wimpenny and his crew to the historic flight are two other British flying clubs. Southampton University aerodynamics students have built Sumpac, which has an 80-ft. wing span and also uses a pusher propeller. Their pilot is longdistance Runner Martin Hyman, who pedals in a low-slung cockpit while reclining on his back. Sumpac, which made its maiden flight one week before Puffin, is still given to ground loops and violent yaws that its pilot is unable to control...
...whose golden tones and rapidfire 400 words-per-minute delivery kept two generations of football, boxing, track and golf fans with their ears to the loudspeaker; after a long illness; in Pasadena. A born and forever-after confirmed New Yorker, Husing tried various jobs, from carnival barker to seaplane pilot, before getting his first chance on radio in 1924, fibbing that he had a Harvard degree, and proving that he could "talk longer and louder" than any of the 600 other applicants for a WJZ announcer's job. In a grand era of such well-remembered voices as Graham...
...mobile office and concentrating at first on the G.I. trade. Flourishing, he moved to offices in Geneva, advertised in the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune for salesmen "with a sense of humor." Among those who hired on were a musician, a veterinarian, a helicopter pilot and an economics student. New salesmen are introduced to the business in five-day cram courses. Commissions range up to 6% of sales; last year's leader earned...