Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year." An "out-damn-standing pilot," in Bellinger's phrase, Adams was one of only six flyers chosen for the Oriskany's second tour in Vietnamese waters after its winter State side leave. On July 12, three days after the Oriskany reached its Yankee Station strikepoint, Adams was shot down again, this time 23 miles from Hanoi...
Suddenly the steep plummeting dive changed to a semblance of flight. Under control of Veteran NASA Test Pilot Milton Thompson, the experimental M2-F2 "lifting body" demonstrated an uncanny ability to maneuver. Wingless and powerless, the 21-ton, 22-ft.-long craft swung through two 90° turns as it dropped through its rapid descent. At the last moment it lifted its nose, lowered its tricycle landing gear and streaked to a spectacular 200-m.p.h. landing on the flatbed of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base. By successfully executing its unusual 217-second flight, the M2-F2 pointed...
Hughes, inheritor of a $16 million fortune derived from oil-drilling equipment, had become chief stockholder of ten-year-old TWA in 1939. He and President Jack Frye pushed TWA into technological airline leadership with such innovations as the feathering propeller, the automatic pilot, wing and propeller deicers, and wing flaps for shorter and safer landings. Yet flashes of brilliance and even the visionary decision to put TWA into the overseas trade could not make up for the caprices of Howard Hughes, whom an associate once dubbed "the spook of American capitalism." He abhorred the details of decisions involving money...
...Eastern, President Floyd Hall, 54, former pilot and later a vice president of TWA, has achieved a remarkable corporate revival since the 1963 retirement of World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker. By the time Hall took over, Eastern's shoddy service had led to the formation of an informal but nationwide WHEAL (for "We Hate Eastern Air Lines") club. Today, that club is only a memory. Equipment and service have vastly improved. From a $37.8 million loss in 1963, Eastern rebounded to a $29.7 million profit last year, managed to make the best return on investment (12.8%) among...
...service, which begins in November, took a long time to negotiate. The idea occurred originally to Air Canada's President Gordon Mc Gregor, 65, a World War II fighter pilot who has built Air Canada into a flourishing line with 42,000 miles of route to the U.S., Europe and the Caribbean. McGregor wanted Moscow on his route as well, flew there for discussions with General E. F. Loginov, who is both Aeroflot's head and Russia's director of civil aviation. Discussions between the governments droned on, but one reason the agreement finally got airborne...