Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most durable Piper of all is William Thomas Piper, president and board chairman of Piper Aircraft Corp.. the Cub's maker. At 80, grey-thatched, stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 200 Ibs.) Bill Piper is the grand old man of private flying-yet he became a cub pilot only at 50 after making a career as a successful oilman. By pioneering in the small, cheap and easy-to-handle plane, he helped put flying within the reach of thousands who had never before had the money-or skills-to fly, and gave the businessman a new tool...
...miles a year to extol his planes' virtues, sometimes gets so wound up that he forgets to stop. "A speech is like an airplane engine," he says. "It may sound like hell, but you've got to go on." He admits he is a poor pilot, points to this as proof that anyone can fly a Piper. He flew his own plane until four years ago. when, says Piper, "My son finally said to me, 'Dad, wouldn't it make a hell of an advertisement for Piper Aircraft if you cracked up?' So I decided...
...costs $1,300 an hour to train a pilot on a jet, so the airlines are eager to train them as quickly as possible, within the limits of safety. They gave their pilots an average of 12 to 14 hours jet flight training, exclusive of ground school, then sent them to FAA for a certification test. About 25% flunked out, although after more schooling almost all passed. In the end the average pilot got 15 to 16 hours flight training, which was adequate, said FAA, but should be bettered. The Air Line Pilots Association also complained that copilots...
...report, Millikan recommended that a series of "pilot projects" be launched in the near future; when interviewed yesterday, he said that the Harvard "youth corps" plan was the sort of project he had in mind...
Died. Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, 74, son of a Sicilian miller, who suffered mysterious psychosomatic pains until he satisfied a compulsion to fly, became a pioneer pilot, instructor (one student: Fiorello La Guardia), and designer whose monoplanes were the first to make nonstop flights carrying a passenger across the Atlantic (1927) and spanning the Pacific (1931); of leukemia; in New York City...