Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anatolian peasants saw an airplane come through a narrow opening in the hills, soar down a long valley until it approached a mountain closing the end, make an 180-degree turn and glide back up the valley until it landed in a flat field. When the peasants reached the plane, they found only two dogs inside...
Juniata McMichen, 19, of Atlanta, tried a variation of the scare technique. She took an hour-long ride in a stunting airplane, including a dive from 10,000 feet. It was her first plane ride and she was "almost scared to death." But it did no good; she climbed out hiccuping six a minute. Doctors finally cured her by crushing a phrenic nerve...
Passengers aboard a pressurized, transatlantic Constellation last year knew what Dr. Gelfan meant: at 19,000 feet, the astrodome had blown off, and with the release of the inside pressure the navigator had been shot out after it. Had the plane not been brought down quickly to a lower altitude, the passengers would soon have felt wobbly, slightly drunk, and would have lost consciousness in a few minutes. At 20,000 feet the pressure can be restored merely by diving, but at 40,000 feet an oxygen mask is needed. Above 52,000 feet, a new problem comes...
...feet, 18 miles away, Search Scope picked up a moving white dot. It was a C-47 from the U.S. Air Force's Berlin airlift. Carefully watching the calibrations which told him the plane's altitude, speed and distance, the G.I. at Search Scope called over his microphone to the pilot: "Calling Easy Charlie three nine ... You will descend 500 feet a minute ... Fly two five seven degrees...
...plane had shown on Middle Scope, whose operator picked up: "Decrease rate of descent to 400 and maintain it constant . . . Lower your landing gear ..." Then Final Scope took over: "Change course to three four eight degrees. You're high on the glide path . . . Level off. Steady . . . You're on the glide path...