Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quoting your review of the movie Fighter Squadron [TIME, Dec. 6]: "When O'Brien parachutes from a crippled plane, his wingman brashly lands in enemy territory to rescue him. This threadbare sort of hokum is fairly hard to take...
...stripping themselves of parachute packs and leaving the canopy of Exum's undamaged ship open, both pilots crammed themselves into the cockpit with Exum at the controls seated on the other's lap. With full power, luck and plenty of flaps the plane jumped the ditch, cleared the mountains and rejoined the formation circling overhead...
Four days later a C-54 tried again, this time releasing a glider and two-man crew for an air-ground pickup. Twice the tow plane managed to snare the glider on a pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale...
...first session of the plane geometry class at Pomona (Calif.) High School, the teacher, "Old Man Bartlett," drew an intricate problem on the blackboard. "This problem," he announced, "contains all the geometric theorems I am going to teach you in this course. If any of you can solve it before the end of the semester, he will automatically...
Died. Quentin Roosevelt, 29, intense, adventurous grandson of T.R., son of the late Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; in a plane crash; near Hong Kong. An instinctive follower of his grandfather's "doctrine of the strenuous life," Quentin* explored the Sino-Tibetan mountain country at 19, joined the Army after graduating from Harvard, was wounded in action in North Africa (where he won the Silver Star and Croix de Guerre), later saw action in Sicily, Europe, China, where he became vice president of China National Aviation Corp...