Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Water Landing. The C-54's pilot, war-toughened, black-haired Lieut. Colonel William R. Calhoun Jr. of Birmingham, Ala., ditched the plane beautifully. But the C-54 hit the rough Pacific sea with a bone-jarring crash. Its lights went out. Debris flew through the cabin. The tail snapped off and so did the left wing...
...darkness men scrambled through an escape hatch or pushed up through the astrodome. They jumped, found themselves swimming and choking in gasoline-coated seas. Only two rafts were launched successfully and tied together. When the plane went down, 35 men were clustered on the rafts or hung in the water beside them. Two passengers had vanished...
...matter straight. Colonel Adams had visited both the Ministry of National Defense and Miraflores Palace on the day of the coup, but his sole purpose was to get information about Lieut. Colonel Frank P. Bender, U.S. air attache, overdue on a search mission for a lost U.S. Army plane...
Under the old system, airliners are led from airport to airport by radio ranges which sound an on-course signal in the pilot's ears only when the plane is in one of four narrow beams. Planes outside the beams get little help from the radio. Even when they stay on the beam, they have no way of telling how far they are from the station...
Another bad feature of the old-style ranges is that airliners have to fly directly from station to station. This causes traffic congestion. In bad weather a long-distance plane cannot strike off cross-country to avoid the neighborhood of a busy airport. If it does, it gets off the beam and may have to go through time-wasting maneuvers to get back on again...