Word: pilots
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...Chairman of the steering committee, Melady asked the Princeton conference to accept a report empowering a "permanent committee" to undertake a pilot project in one or several of the new Asian or African states, draft immediate plans for such a project, and seek appropriate financial support." This report was rejected, however...
...become well known as a corn-belt Comstock through his war against pornographic magazines. A massive (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) lawyer and an impressive speaker, Republican Erbe is the son of a Lutheran minister, a war hero (D.F.C., 35 combat missions over Europe as a B-17 pilot). He advocates a cut in property taxes, more state aid to schools (to be paid for out of the huge surplus), revival of the state highway program...
There was a great deal of dispute before the conference decided upon a statement to represent it. One clause of the first resolution submitted for consideration empowered the steering committee to set up a "pilot project," probably under private rather than public auspices, which would send 100 to 200 students to one or more foreign conferences as soon as possible...
...Wrong Seat. The plane was clear-ly overloaded. And the crash seemed even more inexcusable when the Federal Aviation Agency turned to its records on Pilot Chesher. A veteran of the R.C.A.F. and U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, Chesher had been flying for Arctic-Pacific for three years. Over the years he was charged with nearly a dozen violations of civil air regulations-falsifying engine time (an old trick of shaky, non-sked airlines to stretch the time between mandatory engine inspections), flying more hours during a given period than safety regulations permit, falsifying a manifest...
...tower operator had no authority to stop him. Fields may be officially closed to incoming planes, but under civil aviation rules, a properly qualified pilot is the final judge of whether it is safe for him to take...