Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force Major Robert White piloted a black needle-nosed X-15 rocket plane to an altitude of 59.6 miles-the highest man has ever flown in a winged aircraft, and a respectable second to the hundred-mile-high orbits of U.S. and Soviet astronauts. "For the first time," said Test Pilot White, 38, "it seemed as though I was up in this dark blue sky, instead of looking up at it." Like the astronauts before him, he was overwhelmed by the "fantastic view...
...magnificence. Samoan natives insisted that the moon had burst, and a Bible-reading lady in New Zealand called a newspaper office to ask calmly if the end of the world had begun. Watchers on the beach at Hawaii gasped in surprise at the unexpected daylight, and the pilot of a Canadian Pacific airliner flying to Sydney turned his plane about to give his passengers a breathtaking view of the eerie sight. "Everybody has seen fireballs in pictures." said an amazed Hawaiian, "but no one has ever seen the sky on fire before...
Died. Roger Wolfe Kahn, 54, test pilot, bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer (Crazy Rhythm, Nobody Loves Me, Imagination), son of Millionaire Art Collector Otto Kahn, who formed his first band before the age of 17, later took up flying, got a World War II job testing the Grumman Wildcat fighter, stayed on to become a top executive for the Long Island, N.Y. planemaker; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...intervention does not always work-and sometimes results only in a compromise that prolongs an impossible situation. Thus, neither Continental nor United Air Lines has any problem with a third man. Without Government help, they both withstood strikes from the flight engineers without yielding, have since given engineers pilot training and trimmed their flight crews from four to three...
...record, a habit the experts think the X-15 will continue until it doubles that height. The ten-minute ride to the fringes of space won Air Force Major Bob White, 38, the double distinction of becoming the world's highest and fastest (4,093 m.p.h.) winged-aircraft pilot. Upon landing on Rogers Dry Lake, Calif., White was debriefed with a frosty martini mixed by the flight surgeon&3151;another X-15 project habit...