Word: pilots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same fawning servility he saw heaped upon Stalin. Despite special tutors, he was an indifferent student. Only flying seemed to interest the short (5 ft. 3 in.), slim, red-haired youth, and in 1941 he finally got his wings. In the air Vasily won the reputation of a daredevil pilot; during the postwar years, he occupied a lavish, heavily guarded 30-room villa at Dallgow, near Potsdam, earned notoriety as caring only for drink and women. Partial to cruel practical jokes, he enjoyed rousing high-ranking officials in the middle of the night, barking ''This is Stalin...
...Monday the Corporation gave the Graduate of Education the go-ahead on final contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), a co-sponsor of the pilot project Western Nigerian government...
...taken 489 students through static-line jumps--in none of which did the main canopy fail. And he showed me how a parachute works, how the several tough, elastic bands throw the pack open when the rip cord is pulled, and how, at the same instant, the pilot chute (a miniature parachute that pulls the main canopy out) hurtles almost 20 feet into the air by the force of its own compressed spring system...
...Safety. As the commander of his airliner, every captain realizes that he is the ultimate authority on its safety. Theoretically, he may ignore any antinoise regulation that he considers dangerous. But the pressures to comply are considerable. Airports are continually harassed by their noise-sensitive neighbors, and the pilot who violates a rule for safety's sake may well live to regret it. The airline he works for may be reprimanded for a loud takeoff recorded on the airport's monitors. At some airports, of fending lines have learned that the price of safety is to be forbidden...
Many of the crewmen were nowhere near so sanguine as their leaders that they would make the full 2,300-mile, 16-hour round trip. Passed from hand to hand were a flood of paperback books about British escapes from World War I German prison camps. One pilot taped a hacksaw blade to the sole of his foot; he was convinced that there would be enough shot-down U.S. flyers wandering around the Rumanian countryside "to call a general election, vote the Germans out, and make peace with the Allies...