Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then Pilot Francis Powers was brought down over Sverdlovsk, and the revelation that for four years U-2s had been flying over Russia with impunity left, in the words of a State Department official, an "indelible impression of Soviet vulnerability." The failure to win over the President, plus Ike's outspoken defense of the U-2 flights, probably hurt Khrushchev seriously in the eyes of his own people, hurt his position in the Communist bloc as well. (During the U-2 uproar, China's Mao Tse-tung noted caustically: "This ought to convince those naive enough...
...illustration of how much aerial surveillance could detect, the President displayed a blown-up photograph of the North Island Naval Air Station at San Diego. The photograph had been taken at an altitude of 13 miles (from a U-2 of the same type as Pilot Francis Powers flew over Russia), but visible in it were parking-lot stripes a mere six inches wide...
What is the U.S. doing to help captured U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers? Like any other U.S. citizen in trouble in a foreign country, he is entitled to all the help his Government can give him-but as of this week, that has been very little. The State Department has made four attempts. On May 6, the day Khrushchev announced that a U.S. plane had been shot down. the U.S. embassy in Moscow delivered to the Soviet Foreign Ministry a note asking for details about both plane and pilot. No answer. On May 10, after Khrushchev announced that Powers...
...over Russia is gradually coming clear. Competent U.S. observers are now convinced that he was not shot down by rocket fire at all. Backing up its case with photographs of the U-2 wreckage on exhibition at Moscow's Gorky Park, the current Aviation Week argues persuasively that Pilot Powers must have "made a controlled emergency landing...
...plane (No. 4X-AGE) carrying the Israeli delegation landed at Buenos Aires airport. At the controls was Zvi Tohar. chief pilot of the airline, and besides the delegation the Bristol Britannia transport carried an abnormally large crew of 19. Six hours later. New York Manager Joseph Klein went to the airport, had the plane fueled up and cleared for departure to "Dakar, Rome and further destination pending orders from El Al headquarters." Shortly after midnight, as a couple of sleepy watchmen looked on, Klein dispatched the plane himself, and in effect stranded the Israeli delegation. Had the Britannia...