Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rather than plunge directly into earth's atmosphere and risk crushing G forces or a fiery disintegration from friction, a spaceship would ease into a wide orbit around the earth, cut its speed with retrorockets, and circle slowly to a landing. Orbital reentry also would permit the space pilot to pick out a precise landing point...
...Nathan. What kind of welcome would Pilot Powers get when he finally makes it back home? "He's no Nathan Hale," grumped one U.S. official...
...dramatic launching was dramatically announced. Into the hushed Moscow courtroom where the fate of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers was being deliberated rushed a Soviet official, with word that the U.S.S.R. had just orbited a 10,143-lb. animal-carrying satellite...
...advertising and sales-promotion manager for Aero Design, Bachelor Girl Cobb flew a twin-engined Aero Commander in 1957 to 30,361 ft., a world altitude record for a plane of its class, last year piloted another Commander over an official 2,000-kilometer course at an average speed of 226,148 m.p.h. for another class record. "She's calm as hell in a plane," says an Oklahoma pilot. "There's no fumbling with the radio dials for new frequencies, no fluttering of charts. She's the best organized girl pilot I've ever seen...
Drew Pearson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column in the Washington Post and Times-Herald last week was full of praise for the "amazing luck or amazing insight" of True Magazine's Editor Doug Kennedy. Wrote Pearson of Kennedy: "He published the inside story of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers' flight over Russia on the same day Powers went on trial. The story gives the details of how Powers fought to get his plane started, after stalling at 70,000 feet; how he came down to thicker air around 35,000 feet, then was attacked...