Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Putting them all together in Manhattan, with the help of Researcher Madeleine Bittel Richards, was Associate Editor Richard Seamon, who has written more than two dozen cover stories, including TIME'S fast-closing cover on downed U-2 Pilot Francis Powers (TIME, May 16) and the one on Admiral Harry Felt (TIME, Jan. 6). Dick Seamon, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, has an intimate knowledge of the RB-47 flyers' procedures and perils: during World War II, after training in radar and electronics at Harvard and M.I.T., he piloted a photo-mapping PB4Y...
...swiftly relayed Khrushchev's message to Washington, and it was up to Jack Kennedy to make the decisions. The demand for simultaneous announcements offered no substantive problems. Neither did the requirement for declaring against U-2 flights; President Eisenhower had ordered such overflights discontinued shortly after U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers crashed on Soviet soil last May, and President Kennedy had already determined to maintain the ban. The third Soviet stipulation was much more difficult to accept, and it was to become a major reason for the strict security set up around the two U.S. airmen. But Kennedy...
...plane down over Soviet waters near the Kola Peninsula. Olmstead and McKone, the only survivors, were in prison. They would, cried Nikita, be tried as spies, "under the full rigor of Soviet law." Such vehemence seemed only natural after the loud propaganda that followed the capture of U-2 Pilot Powers and Khrushchev's intransigence in Paris...
...seen by Author Gann, the commercial airline pilot seems to be a reliable fellow-decent, dedicated, cautious and undaunted. Yet, airline passengers who pick up this book are bound to come to an alarming conclusion: the man who flies often enough, whether the captain at the controls or the traveler in the cabin, is doomed. Fate is more than a fine literary record of Gann's own career as a commercial pilot, reaching back to the days of open-cockpit biplanes "and the strangely pleasant odor of wood and shellacked fabric, of which our airplanes were made...
...after a while, even for the professional pilot with a sense of the poetry of the air, the tensions began to tell. In 1954, Gann decided not to press his luck. On every flight, he caught himself worrying that the law of averages might hunt him down. He knew it was time to turn in his wings, for he could no longer repeat an old airline pilot's creed: "One thing I'm sure about. If my tail gets there, so will the passengers...