Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inexpensive "dry" papermaking process, which eliminates the heavy machinery and vast water supplies needed by current paper mills. The U.S.'s Kimberly-Clark and several other large paper companies have paid fees of $25,000 to inspect and run their own tests in Kroyer's pilot plant at Aarhus, may soon buy rights to use his manufacturing techniques. Inventor Kroyer sees no end to the possibilities, claims that the process can be used for continuous production of "almost anything from building blocks to bridal dresses." He has already run off several of the latter at a cost...
...bloom, but University of Arizona Scientist Carl Hodges is actually doing something about it. And not by means of futuristic and costly nuclear-powered desalination plants, but by efficient use of simple diesel-electric engines like those that now provide power to remote communities all over the world. A pilot project on Mexico's Gulf of California is already accomplishing in miniature what Hodges hopes to achieve on a global scale...
...targets safely distant from such hazards as rivers and lakes. On this day, though, the sky was mostly overcast at 4,500 ft., the winds aloft ranged up to 60 m.p.h., the air craft was a World War II B-25 bomber with rudimentary navigation equipment, and the pilot was Robert Karns, 29, who had never bothered to get a "type rating" for the plane. The jumpers' tar get: Ortner Field itself, only ten miles from Lake Erie...
Into the Void. Off they went in the B-25 climbing through the clouds and circling north over the lake before heading back toward the field. When Pilot Karns thought he was in approximate position, he radioed the Federal Aviation Administration radar station at Oberlin, Ohio, for a radar vector. The Oberlin operator announced: "You are three miles west of Ortner." "Fine," radioed Karns. "I'm releasing my jumpers." Looking down, all anyone on the plane could see was clouds, broken here and there by patches of brownish green. Both the U.S. Parachute Association and the FAA have regulations...
Died. William Hawley Bowlus, 71, pioneer glider pilot and the man responsible for building Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, who started making sailplanes as a teen-ager in 1910, after World War I joined Plane Builder T. Claude Ryan as plant superintendent in charge of constructing the Spirit, later taught both Lindy and his wife Anne the art of soaring; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...