Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claims to have had advance dope on the British-French-Israeli Suez invasion. It correctly predicted the Hungarian uprising in 1956, directed the U-2 flights over Russia that provided the U.S. with some of its best intelligence on Russia-until they were called off after Pilot Powers' crash...
...Fish Is Red. The operation started with a surprise attack by B-26 light bombers on Cuban airports where Russian MIG-15s were reportedly being uncrated and assembled. In the best cloak and dagger tradition, to lend credence to a cover story that the bombings were by pilots defecting from Castro's air force, a few .30-cal. bullets were fired into an old Cuban B26. A pilot took off in the crate and landed it at Miami with an engine needlessly feathered and a cock-and-bull story that he had attacked the airfields. A reporter noted that...
...bullets. A second B26, with a shot-up engine and landing gear, scraped down on a bed of fire-preventing foam at the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West. A third reportedly landed in Jamaica. The crewmen, all Cubans, were whisked away before reporters could ask questions. One pilot, who finally told an elaborate story of his day's work, asked not to be named, to protect his family in Cuba...
...Union and awarding him the brand-new title of First Hero Cosmonaut. The new major, neat in his grey and blue uniform, spoke with admirable poise, the party line rolling easily off his tongue. He thanked the party, the government and Premier Khrushchev for trusting him, a simple Soviet pilot, with the first flight to outer space. "While in outer space," he said, "I was thinking about our party and about our homeland...
...doing. At Boeing Airplane Co., as assistant superintendent of production on B-17s, he studied engineering so he could talk a mechanic's language. During World War II, when he went into the Marines as an Air Transport Service officer, he learned to fly to know a pilot's problems. After the war he went to McCulloch Corp., helped build it up from a tiny company housed in Quonset huts. He took his wife on outboard races on the rough Colorado River through the Grand Canyon ("How can you" be in a business without knowing the product...