Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sprinting along the fringes of space, 21 miles above the earth, NASA Test Pilot Joe Walker last week gunned his rocket-powered X-15 to the greatest speed any airplane has ever achieved-an imagination-defying 3.920 m.p.h. In the nose of the X-15, a grapefruit-sized electronic wizard familiarly known as "the Q-ball" gauged the basic critical factors-direction, sideslip, friction-and told Joe Walker that he could safely press for the record. Said Walker, with affection: "The Q-ball is a go-no-go item. Only if she checks...
Died. Sigurd F. Varian, 60, ex-chairman of California's Varian Associates, a one time barnstorming pilot whose distaste for blind flying led him to invent (with two partners) the klystron tube, the high-frequency heart of radar development; in a private-plane crash; between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico...
...West African Pilot on Wednesday featured a letter allegedly written by Craig Walker, a member of the Experiment in International Living, in which the Nigerin Government was described as "corrupt and irresponsible...
Gary went on to become an authentic hero as a bomber pilot. Of his entire squadron, only half a dozen came out of the war alive. Admirable sentimentalist that he is, Gary prefers to believe that his mother took care of him. Regularly throughout the war, he had gotten letters from Mama, the one human being who could keep him going. But when he got back to Nice, a captain and the hero his mother had always said he would be, he learned that she had died of diabetes 3½ years before. But before her death, and knowing...
...even square in shape; encased in that permanent invalid of the American baking industry, the bun, they are, even so, mechanically consumed in sickening quantities every day. They cost anywhere from 15 cents to 40 cents. And every single one of them is accompanied, like a whale with its pilot fish, by a small, awkward slice of cucumber pickle. All very depressing...