Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every other plane flies at 6,000 feet on the south corridor inbound to Berlin. The planes ahead and behind it are at 5,000 feet with four minutes' flying time between them and the planes on the higher level...
...Walrus. From the U.S. airports Rhein-Main and Wiesbaden the planes head for Darmstadt. Then they turn northeast for Aschaffenburg and then pick up the Fulda radio range. After Fulda they can fly either on the northeast leg of the Fulda radio range or the southwest Leg of the Tempelhof range. In the Russian zone, just past Eisenach, Hensch's plane flew over one of the Red army training grounds. There were tank tracks through the fields and vehicles lined up next to the forest. Said Hensch: "I'd like to come over here with 20,000 pounds...
What the Russians Sent. Hensch's plane came over the crumpled heart of Berlin to circle back for its landing under the careful coaching of G.C.A., the radar control for helping planes on to the ground when weather closes in. (Even on good days G.C.A. stays in action to keep the operators and the pilots in practice...
Hensch and Baker walked around the plane to look at a spot where they had collided with a bird above the clouds. They found no scar. Baker walked over to make his routine report to intelligence officers. Hensch called after him: "Better tell them the Russians sent a bird after...
Passengers on a Capital Airlines flagship bound from Washington to Chicago also watched the series on an airborne TV set. Whenever the airliner got beyond station range, it simply climbed 1,000 feet and picked up the signal again. When the plane was equidistant from two stations in different cities, but on the same channel, the result was not a double image. The stronger station...