Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Would You Believe It?" From the urgent chop-chop of a loudspeaker in a nearby village, Adams could tell that his landing had been spotted and that a search party was being organized. Then an SH-3 helicopter homed in on the pilot's voiced directions from his pocket radio and scooped him to safety. No other American has been rescued so close to North Viet Nam's main population center. Four and a half hours after takeoff, Adams-fondly nicknamed "Bulb" because of his prematurely receding hairline-was back aboard the Oriskany. Squadron 162 greeted him with...
...former philosophy major at the University of Minnesota, Adams got hooked on flying in 1961, when a Navy pilot friend came home on leave and showed off his jet. At the end of his Navy hitch next year, Reservist Adams thinks he will have had enough of the war, plans to go back to college. The Navy, already convinced that he has done quite enough, has ordered him to fly no more missions over North Viet Nam. Why did he take such extraordinary risks to avoid capture? "This carrier isn't much," he shrugged last week, "but it beats...
...start walking at Hanoi. The farther he has to walk, the longer his supply line becomes, and the less there is that reaches the South." Their cameras are set to fire automatically when the flash cartridges go off, but Communist tracers can come so close that one pilot last week came home with an extra picture triggered by a bullet's glare...
...Raise. Under prodding from outraged politicians, the Luftwaffe is working at top speed to improve its safety record. Pilot training has been transferred to Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, where in clear skies seasoned U.S. instructors are teaching German cadets how to handle one of the world's most unforgiving airplanes. The Luftwaffe is setting up a new maintenance system in Germany that will depend heavily on private German aerospace companies to service the Starfighter's electronic gear. Pilots' pay has been almost doubled, to $137.50 a month. The improvements are coming none too soon...
...flight plan that was easily the most complex and ambitious ever designed for U.S. astronauts. By the time they splashed into the Atlantic after three days in orbit, Gemini's crew had collected an impressive variety of space-age records. With one after an other intricate exercise, Command Pilot John Young and his colleague, Michael Collins, wrote bright new chapters into the record book of space travel...