Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people concerned with bettering American educational facilities that the education of women is too often lost or dissipated when college days are over. American women, once educated, are too often diverted from continuing their own careers in our society," the President explained. "Radcliffe views its new program as a pilot study with the hope that similar plans will be adopted by other colleges and universities to meet pressing national need...
Aboard each of the two-man, tvvin-engined jets was a Navy pilot and a radar-intercept officer, whose job was to navigate and handle communications. Each mile of the transcontinental trip was meticulously plotted, and electronic computers calculated the precise place and time at which mid-air refueling would be required (near Albuquerque, St. Louis and Pittsburgh). Using afterburners for maximum speed-more than 1,300 m.p.h.-the jets kept to an altitude of 50,000 ft. except for refueling, when they throttled back to less than 600 m.p.h. and dropped to 30,000 ft. to rendezvous with waiting...
...Ryan Flex Wing has no conventional control surfaces. Its pilot and 100-h.p. engine hang well below the kitelike wing, and control is accomplished by tilting the wing with respect to the heavy, low-hanging engine. If the leading point of the wing is lowered, the Flex Wing tends to descend. When the wing is tilted to the side, the Flex Wing banks and turns...
...each flight, as it comes closer to its design speed of 4,000 m.p.h., the experimental X-15 rocket plane usually sets a record. Last week it set another: Test Pilot Joe Walker flew it at 3,370 m.p.h., which is 296 m.p.h. faster than Major Robert White's flight last April 21. Only Russia's Spaceman Yuri Gagarin and the U.S.'s Alan Shepard have ever flown faster. As his ship nosed over, after reaching a peak altitude of 110,000 ft., Walker was weightless for almost a full minute...
...script offers only an occasional chuckle. General: "Hurry up; General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails for Zwei). It's funny-but it seems to have been lobbed in because the script was getting just too dull for words...