Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vintage ship developed what sounded like engine trouble, and returned to San Francisco's International Airport for a thorough checkup. No problem was found, and at 11:30 p.m. it set out again. At 3:40 a.m., 525 miles out, there was trouble once more. The pilot radioed a passing airliner that loss of oil was forcing him to feather an engine and return to San Francisco. The morning papers reported matter-of-factly that the plane was missing. Not until the afternoon editions did word get out that one of the three men aboard was craggy, bespectacled Brigadier...
Extra Tanks. Like many other Green Berets, Stilwell had taken up flying, and it was his eagerness to log instrument time toward a commercial pilot's license that put him aboard last week's ill-fated flight. An old friend, Harold J. Grimes, 45, operator of a one-man West Coast air ferry service, was delivering a plane that a California winery had recently sold to the government of Thailand. Stilwell planned to go along as far as Hawaii, then return to the mainland. Taking a three-day pass from Fort Bragg, he went to San Francisco, first...
Another intensive search located the wreckage of a high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance plane that disappeared after leaving Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base, presumably on a surveillance mission over Cuba. The Pentagon said that the pilot, Captain Robert D. Hickman, 32, had apparently lost consciousness over the Caribbean, and that the U-2 had probably been guided by its automatic pilot until it ran out of fuel. Hickman's body was found in the debris on a rugged plateau in west-central Bolivia...
Word spread in many an airman's ready room of the fate that could befall the pilot who took a deadly hit from Red gunners. A witness was Navy Pilot Dieter Dengler, 28, whose escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp near Vinh was the first of the war. Dengler was born in Wildberg, West Germany, and came to the U.S. with his brother as a teen-ager in 1957; he joined the Air Force that same year, became a U.S. citizen in 1960, and was commissioned as a Navy aviator in 1964. Shot down over...
...expense trip to Rhodes costs $103; a 19-day Tjaereborg bus tour of eight cities, including Moscow and Berlin, costs $125. Krogager plows most earnings back into the companies, whose plant and equipment are now worth $45 million. His Sterling Airways, run for him by a onetime SAS pilot, has on order two more Caravelles and a DC-6-B. Krogager is also building an eleven-story hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol and planning another on Rhodes. The company is about to rent a computer for data processing to supplement Krogager's staff...