Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Classic Detachment. The moving force behind the meetings was Alan Boyd, 39, a lanky, earnest ex-Air Force troop carrier combat pilot, who was a Florida state utilities and railroad commissioner before President Eisenhower appointed him to CAB in 1959. "I don't want to play God," says Democrat Boyd, "but CAB cannot maintain a position of classic detachment. I do not want my administration to be remembered as the one that let the airlines slide into as much trouble as the railroads are in." Boyd told the airline executives flatly: "We have all got to start doing...
...Hammarskjold and his party of 15 climbed aboard the Albertina, a white DC-6 used by the U.N. in the Congo. Hammarskjold's main concern, on takeoff, was ominous: his plane had to cross territory controlled by a marauding Katanga jet fighter known as "The Lone Ranger." The pilot, thought to be Rhodesian or an English-speaking Belgian, had been terrorizing U.N. garrisons since the beginning of the fighting, had even made strafing passes at a press conference given by U.N. Katanga Commander Conor Cruise O'Brien in Elisabethville...
...there was no evidence that the plane had exploded in midair. The "explosions," they said, were probably the plane's landing gear hitting treetops as it approached the Ndola field too low. "It looks like a typical case of power failure or faulty instruments," said one. Another possibility: pilot error. Captain Per-Erik Hallonquist, although a veteran of 7,000 hours and countless jungle flights, had been on continuous duty for 36 hours. But some doubt and suspicion would probably always linger over the wrecked DC-6 in the woods outside Ndola...
...have avoided the frills and any route acquisitions for the sake of bigness alone," says ex-Pilot Robert English Peach, 41, president of fast-rising Mohawk Airlines, which puddle-jumps between the East Coast and the Great Lakes. With that formula and reliable service, Peach has lifted Mohawk's revenues from last year's $10 million to this year's rate of $15 million, and now he thinks the line is ready for calculated growth. Last week, in a complex deal that would make Mohawk the nation's eighth biggest air carrier, Peach proposed to absorb...
...room is dark, save for the rosy glow from the pilot light. On the broad panel-set roughly equidistant from two woofered and tweetered speaker assemblies in massive cabinets-is an array of switches, dials and knobs. This is not the cockpit of the X-15; it is a modern stereophonic rig. Tuner off. Amplifier on. Selector switch on RIAA. All niters out. Left volume control on #5. Right volume control on #5. Turntable spinning at 33⅓ r.p.m. A metal arm glides with feathery softness over the record. For the moment, the speakers are switched off. Instead, from...