Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beacons flashing, crash trucks and ambulances waited alongside the runway at London's Heathrow Airport last week as Prime Minister Harold Wilson returned from his sixth and last explora tory mission to the Common Market countries. The pilot of the R.A.F. Comet had heard a suspicious thump as the plane climbed out of Luxembourg's Findel Airport and, fearing a blown-out nose tire, had radioed ahead for emergency help. It was not needed. The plane touched down in a perfect landing, with only the adhering feathers of a Luxembourgian Redwing to show for the scare...
Garrison insists that he has a witness to a number of 1963 meetings involving Shaw, Oswald and David Ferrie, a former airline pilot who died two weeks ago of natural causes. When police searched Ferrie's cluttered apartment, they filled 14 cartons with his effects, including a "Dear Al" letter to a boy friend ("I offered you love and the best I could; all I got in return, in the end, was a kick in the teeth"), but Garrison did not say whether he had unearthed any clues to the assassination. When police searched Shaw's home, among...
...nation's largest publishers of paperback books; it also puts out Bibles and dictionaries, art and medical books, airline flight manuals, slide rules and even service-station road maps. It publishes the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun and Evening Telegram and, south of Los Angeles, the Orange Coast Daily Pilot. According to Times Mirror President Albert Casey, it is the company's ambition to double its earnings in the next five years. In 1966, they stood...
That was how the news looked to Barney Stutesman one recent morning as he hovered over Detroit in a helicopter outfitted with white carpeting and white Naugahyde upholstering. A onetime U.S. Army pilot who is now a traffic watcher for radio station WXYZ, Stutesman is one of a growing tribe of hardy newsmen (and women) who hop into a Cessna or helicopter in the early-dawn hours, brave snow, fog and smog to report the traffic below and watch for fastbreaking news stories like fires and explosions...
...Worthless but Elegant. Intently following the course of the planes as they crashed into walls, plunged beneath chairs or fluttered helplessly to the floor were eight judges, including a woman parachutist, the pilot of the Goodyear blimp, a senior researcher of Princeton's aerodynamics laboratory, and the owner of Manhattan's Go Fly A Kite store. Using stop watches, tape measures and esthetic expertise, the judges picked winners in four different categories: duration aloft, distance flown, aerobatics and origami (the ancient Japanese art of paper folding...