Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Russians captured U-2 Pilot Francis G. Powers last May 1, both his wife and his parents asked the Soviet embassy in Washington for permission to go to Moscow to see him. With the baffling arbitrariness that so often characterizes Soviet officialdom, the Russians granted a visa only to Powers' father Oliver, who runs a shoe repair shop in Norton, Va. Powers' wife Barbara, 24, spent three anxious months importuning the U.S. State Department for help, pleading with Soviet embassy officials, even sending a personal appeal to Nikita Khrushchev...
...cold, rarefied upper atmosphere nine miles above California's Mojave Desert, the B-52 mother ship let go of the stub-winged X-15 research plane and swung away. In his cramped cockpit, greying Test Pilot Joseph Walker, 38, flicked a series of switches, and the black needle-nosed X-15's eight rocket chambers roared into fiery life. On a high-altitude research mission for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Walker was not supposed to be trying for a speed record. But he pushed his plane as fast as skill could push...
...first Clint Hester was convinced that his son was alive somewhere in the mountains. To help in his search, he got hold of the classified flight plan of the lost B-24 and the position reports that it had radioed back. The pilot's last call, Hester learned, indicated that the plane was then flying somewhere near the town of Lone Pine, twelve miles east of Mount Whitney. In the Lone Pine area he began a search that continued for 14 years, halting only when the winter snows blocked the trails, resuming again in the spring...
...hope of finding his son alive faded away, Hester set up a marble urn in his backyard in Los Angeles as a memorial to Bob and his fellow crewmen. "The war will never end for us," he wrote to the parents of the lost B-24's pilot. He bought a parcel of land near Lone Pine, built a house there. "Now I won't have to go so far to look for Bob," he said...
Into the forbidding portals of the Soviet embassy in Washington last week walked a tired-faced women, Barbara Powers, 24, wife of ill-fated U-2 Pilot Francis Powers, who will be tried this month in Moscow for espionage. When Barbara emerged, she looked tireder still. She had been hoping for some word on her request for a Soviet visa. But "three third secretaries" had told her that they had heard nothing from Moscow. Said she despondently, "His letters have such an air of sadness-as though he is just doomed." At week's end, Barbara, through her lawyer...