Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the wreckage of the fallen planes had stopped smoldering, John Reed, director of the National Transportation Safety Board, led a team of 68 investigators to the scene. Why was the private plane, carrying two Springfield, Mo., businessmen and flown by Veteran Pilot David Addison of Lebanon, Mo., twelve miles off course at the time of the collision? When Addi son reached a point southeast of the Asheville-Hendersonville Airport, he had been instructed to turn north, then report in for final landing instructions...
...Kennedy likes to think of himself as Ray the Shark, Senior Editor Edward Hughes has at times been referred to as Ed the Eagle. A licensed pilot, he is a dedicated weekend flyer. It was Hughes who inspired and helped report our recent story [July 7] on the fad of crossing the Atlantic in small aircraft. Flying as copilot with a professional who was ferrying a twin-engined Piper Aztec from Boston to Geneva, Hughes crossed in three days of which twenty hours were actual flying time. There were stops for fueling in Gander, a haircut in Reykjavik, and golf...
...atomic clock and a 40-lb. computer mechanism in every U.S. commercial aircraft. At three-second intervals, precisely timed signals from the computers would surround each aircraft with a protective electronic bubble. When one bubble touched another, the system would trigger an audio-visual alarm and possibly give the pilots a harmless electric shock. In today's jets, the warning would come 60 seconds prior to possible collision, when the aircraft were about 20 miles apart. Twenty seconds later, after electronic analysis of courses, speeds and altitudes, the sensor-computers would signal the best possible collision-avoidance maneuver each...
...nearby isle of Iviza. There the group lunched at El Prenso restaurant on shrimp and broiled sea bass, looked over a possible building site on the coast, and then emplaned, supposedly for the return flight to Palma. The jet had barely completed the climb out from Iviza when Pilot David Taylor, 32, radioed to the Palma air-control center: "I am being forced at gunpoint by passengers to change route to Algeria." Less than an hour later, the plane put down at a military base outside Algiers. The passengers and pilots were immediately taken into custody by Algiers security...
...army captain in Europe (two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star) in World War II. He joined New York Central in 1952, quickly moved up the ranks to become executive vice president in 1962. At Flying Tiger, it won't hurt that he is a licensed pilot who flies his own twin-engined Aero Commander, goes so far as to call his new job a "merger of avocation and vocation." Says Prescott of his new colleague: "This guy is a brain. He's gutsy too. He wants to swing, wants to do things." The way it sounds, Hoffman...