Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member fact-finding board reported bleakly to the President on its ten-day effort to mediate a settlement: "The board cannot point to any single issue of any consequence whatsoever upon which the parties are in agreement." Next morning Assistant Attorney General George Cochran Doub boarded an Air Force plane for Pittsburgh, steel capital, to argue the U.S.'s case for a Taft-Hartley injunction before District Judge Herbert P. Sorg...
...happened next would have to await a Civil Aeronautics Board investigation. It may have been that Berke failed to correct with his left rudder in time, or inadvertently applied more right. The 707 flipped on its back. The gut-pounding stress was too much for the 248,000-lb. plane, and ordinarily the wings might have torn loose. But the 707 was designed to lose its engines under such strain, rather than its wings-and three engines ripped loose, plummeted to earth...
Quickly Pilot Baum took over, told Berke to help him roll the giant plane back to the left. The 707 came up straight and level, then rolled beyond to the left. With only the right inboard engine remaining, Pilot Baum thought fast, decided that he lacked the power to roll the plane back to the right, so, taking advantage of the momentum, turned the airliner into a maneuver for which it was never intended-a barrel roll. Under Baum's practiced hand, the huge 707 went through its full roll till finally it was right side up again, flying...
...claimed an unidentified light plane this afternoon dropped an incendiary bomb on a sugar mill in western Cuba and burned a house down...
RADAR FIGHT is brewing between Federal Aviation Agency and Air Transport Association. FAA wants weather radar on all four-engined passenger planes, but airlines, which have ordered radar on nearly all new planes, argue that it would be too expensive (up to $80,000 per plane) to equip old craft...