Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sympathy for having killed her dog. Or airplanes. "There's this guy standing next to me, and he's saying such things as 'If God wanted man to fly, he'd have given him wings.' And it's our pilot." Or trading stamps. It seems a girl friend saved 1,345 books of stamps toward an African safari. When she licked the last one, she got sick and died of glue poisoning. Or sex. "My husband is English, you see. He's terribly conservative. He wears pajamas with a vest. I give...
...aloft, circling patiently 300 ft. to 400 ft. above its master. A grouse or pheasant flushes from a meadow; a flight of ducks or geese goes past. The peregrine noses into his classic "stoop"-a dive to target so fast that a peregrine once outdove a plane whose pilot thought he would have some fun making a pass at a flock of ducks...
...month period beginning in August 1965, there were four fatal 727 crashes, all of them during the final landing approach. But last week, reporting on one of the four disasters-an American Airlines 727 crash in Cincinnati that took 58 lives-the Civil Aeronautics Board blamed the accident on pilot error and cleared the aircraft altogether. The 727, said the CAB, has "no design deficiencies or unsatisfactory operating characteristics...
Married. Lieut, (j.g.) Dieter Dengler, 28, German-born U.S. Navy pilot who last July became the first captured airman to escape from North Viet Nam, after six months of torture and imprisonment; and Marina Adamich, 24, Yugoslavian-born Stanford University chemistry research assistant, his fiancee of two years, who said, days before the wedding: "He's changed. We just could never marry now," but then obviously changed her mind; in Reno...
...patchy as a Cape Cod fog, baggage and reservations were often scrambled. Anguished anecdotes about Northeast service became a fad. There was, for instance, the plane that loaded up and then sat for so long on the apron that passengers joked to one another about not having a pilot. As it turned out, they didn't; he came along about half an hour late and finally flew them...