Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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READ YOUR AUG. 4 PRESS STORY AND WOULD LIKE MAKE ONE CORRECTION: FIRST MEN IN BAGHDAD WERE TWO, STAN CARTER AND MYSELF. WHEN WE ARRIVED ON IRAQI MILITARY PLANE FROM DAMASCUS, OFFICERS AT BAGHDAD AIRPORT DIDN'T KNOW WHO WE WERE. THEY SEEMED TO THINK WE WERE EITHER AMERICAN OFFICERS OR MOON MEN. I WAS FIRST MAN TO INTERVIEW BRIGADIER EL-KASSIM...
...first time since leaving Hawaii to send off a three-word encrypted signal to the Navy that said something like: "Here we are!" Thirteen miles off Iceland a helicopter arrived out of nowhere, lifted Anderson off for a preplanned hop to Iceland's Keflavik Airfield, where a Navy plane was waiting to fly him to Washington. The helicopter lowered the crew's first outside-world tribute direct from the President of the U.S. It read: "Congratulations on a magnificent achievement. Well done...
...Unseen Face. The probe will be fired roughly eastward to get the added throw of earth's eastward spin, and its course will be an elongated S in the plane set by the moon's 27-day easterly revolution around the earth. The reverse in the curve will come when the probe nears a rendezvous in the moon's path and feels the moon's pull...
FIRST ALL-RADAR AIRWAY, in which ground controllers can "see" every plane in skies, will open between New York and Washington by October, soon after will be extended south to Norfolk and North to Boston, later to Chicago. CAA is installing 16 long-range radar ground stations in New York-Washington-Chicago triangle...
...routinely above Okinawa and Japan, jumped the ocean to the Aleutians. There he ran into his only trouble. When the wingtip tanks unaccountably began to lose fuel, and the engine coughed in the cold, Boling began running over his ditching check list. Then he decided to stay with the plane. He dropped to 1,500 ft.; when the engine purred again, he flew confidently on. Approaching the Pendleton airport he radioed a single request: permission to land without circling because...