Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since he founded Miami's National Airlines, Old Pilot George T. (Ted) Baker has feuded at one time or another with virtually every major figure in U.S. commercial aviation. But in the stormy process, he has built National from a 142-mile mail run into the nation's seventh biggest air carrier. Last week, with National's skies sunnier than ever before-the company's first-quarter earnings this year were almost $3,000,000, v. a $1,400,000 deficit a year ago-hardhitting Ted Baker abruptly sold out to a man with whom...
...Moon Pilot. Walt Disney has produced a funny farce of errors about a moonstruck astronut who almost wrecks the U.S. missile program...
...South Viet Nam, U.S. General Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff, critically examined the Vietnamese air arm and found it good. Just before hopping into the pilot's seat to fly his jet KC-135 to the Philippines, LeMay said: "It's perfectly apparent to me that the Vietnamese government is making rapid strides in its efforts to clear the country of Communist insurgents." Other recent visitors to South Viet Nam were not so sure...
...fold out into the rear seat, and an air-conditioning system that can deliver different measures of hot and cold to each passenger. The big new Facel Vega II from France has an instrument panel designed to turn anyone with $9,800 to spend into a Mitty-style jet pilot-8 dials. 10 toggle switches. And Rolls Royce. unable to improve on perfection, is offering such titillations as a built-in refrigerator to go with the built-in bar and a water supply built into a front door...
...Moon Pilot. Walt Disney has produced the first farce about the space race: a cosmedy of errors about a moonstruck astronut who wrecks the U.S. missile program...