Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...served on a destroyer in the Atlantic until the end of World War II. Everything he did, he did with a personal flair. When he wangled orders to flight school, he became so impatient with the pace of service routine that he got himself a private pilot's license at a civilian flight school. When he took up water skiing, he found two skis too prosaic; he learned to manage with one and is now planning to get a boat fast enough to pull him along on the soles of his bare feet. "It is characteristic of him always...
...wife of a U.S. Navy pilot presently attached to the U.S.S. Coral Sea. I hate to see my husband involved in fighting in Laos; but above and beyond my personal feelings', I hate to see my country continue in its "wishy-washy" attitude toward Communist aggression. Will we ever step in and fight for what we believe in? Or are we going to give ground in Laos, as we did in Korea and Viet Nam, until there is no more ground to give ? KARLEEN P. TURNER Oakland, Calif...
...Piedmont Airlines' Flight 349 took off from Washington and headed for Charlottesville, Va. Fifty-one minutes later, with his flaps down for a landing at Charlottesville airport, Pilot George Lavrinc crashed the DC-3 into Bucks Elbow Mountain, 13 miles to the west. Killed were 26 of the 27 persons aboard, including Lavrinc...
...conclusion: Captain Lavrinc had been flying off course for 30 minutes, or since the time he had cruised over the "Casanova" control point. There he was scheduled to make a 20° left turn. Instead he continued on a death course. From then on, the investigation centered on Pilot George Lavrinc, 32, and his private life...
...said, would benefit humanity enough to dwarf any other scientific accomplishment. This hope, that desalted sea water may make the deserts bloom as the rose, has long been popular. It has stirred speculative flurries on the stock exchanges; it can almost always get money out of Congress. Five big pilot desalting plants backed with federal money are now scheduled or already under construction. But the experts who came to the National Watershed Conference in dry-as-dust Tucson, Ariz., last week, knew better than to bother with such far-out schemes. Even the keynote speaker, Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr...