Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were still combing the marshes for bodies, FAAdministrator Najeeb Halaby flew in from Washington with a team of experts to investigate the causes of the crash. There had been no indication of an explosion or fire in the air, and not a word of distress from Veteran (32 years) Pilot James T. S. Heist, 56. The 707s have previously flown millions of miles without a commercial-passenger fatality in the U.S. What had happened? The steering mechanism may have jammed when Pilot Heist started to turn the plane, or the jet may have been climbing too steeply to make...
Rarely in his career as a spy had U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers been under thicker wraps than those that enveloped him last week. Although the President described him as "a free agent," he remained in a top-secret hideout under the vigilant custody of the Federal Government. Questioning by a board headed by Federal Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, plus intensive analysis of his account by CIA agents, had convinced the Government that Powers acquitted himself well as a Russian captive. But Powers' scheduled emergence from hiding was postponed while CIA Boss John McCone, with the Prettyman report...
...about 30 minutes the planes were unmolested as they attacked the palace with four bombs, eight rockets and cannon fire. Meanwhile, loyal ground troops, anticipating a full-scale revolution, hastily ringed the palace grounds with tanks. Minesweepers patrolled the Saigon River. Then two loyal pilots from the Bienhoa air base, twelve miles north of Saigon, gave chase, but on the ground in Saigon no one knew if the new arrivals were friends or foes. Antiaircraft fire from tanks, minesweepers, and even policemen's pistols was indiscriminate. Despite the confusion, most of the people went about their business with conventional...
...Pilots of World War II fighters usually bailed out by climbing on the wing and just letting go. But in this day of Mach 2 jets, not even a quick-acting ejection seat can dependably shoot the pilot out of a disabled plane and get him down safely. The wind blast at high speed tears at a pilot's face, smashes cruelly at his chest, twists his limbs into grotesque positions. If he is not battered to death, he is likely to freeze or die from lack of oxygen on the way down...
Some of the characters are old hands at the game. Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon made his first foray against the Reds in 1947. George Wunder's Terry, like Canyon a U.S. Air Force pilot, is as good at outmaneuvering the Russian and Chinese Communists as he ever was against the China-coast pirates of the 1930s. Navy Commander Buz Sawyer has just set forth on a mission against the international dope trade-or, as Sawyer's creator. Artist Roy Crane, put it, "the sinister machinations of a World Power...