Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilot Norman L. Widen, his eyes corked black to cut glare, swung his twin-engined P-38 sharply over a German-held airfield in Tunis, put an Me 109 in his gunsight and blasted away. Just as the 109 coughed black smoke, a sudden clatter of shells peppered Widen's armor plate from behind, clipped his helmet and set his own plane afire. Quickly, Widen pulled back on his throttles and bailed out. As he drifted toward the ground, Widen saw his assailant: another Me 109 was circling him menacingly. Mindful of stories that Nazis had been known...
...Widen had no need to fear on that December day in 1942. The Nazi pilot did not harm him, instead set down his 109 and went over to meet Widen, who had landed near the airfield. The Nazi was a cordial fellow named Anton ("Toni") Hafner, fated to become Germany's ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). American college students in Guinea provide a preview of the coming invasion in "Crossroads Africa-Pilot for a Peace Corps...
...schooled in a complicated, checks-and-balances, fail-safe system that is not only foolproof but "damnfool-proof." Before an alert plane would start toward its target, the coded string of electronic signals from the command post must be authenticated by two crewmen as well as by the pilot. When that is done, the crew begins the arduous process of arming the bombs. No one crew member can do it alone; for each man who arms the bomb, regulations require that another must be in attendance and watching closely. Knobs must be turned, safety seals broken, keys inserted and turned...
...cramped cockpit of the black, needle-nosed little aircraft shackled under the right wing of a B-52 jet bomber. Air Force Major Robert White threw a releasing switch, moments later pulled back on his throttle. By the time he returned to earth, Test Pilot White, at the controls of the U.S.'s experimental rocket plane X-15 over California's Mojave Desert, had flown faster than any human before him. His speed of 2,905 m.p.h. was nearly 4½ times the speed of sound and 630 m.p.h. faster than he had flown...