Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denver airport, a nosy reporter cornered lanky Cinemactor James Stewart, about to board a plane for Hollywood with Traveling Companion Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean. Prodded about marriage rumors, Stewart said: "Well, I'm not going to get married." "To Mrs. McLean?" "No, I'm just not going to get married...
...four, playing their positions carefully and conserving energy, were hoary holdovers from the salad days of U.S. polo. The great Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. was gone (killed in a wartime plane crash in Britain) but one of his contemporaries, 45-year-old Cecil Smith, was in there riding at No. 3. Up front, his back ramrod-stiff as always, rode the old man of the team, Eric Pedley...
...days ago, as he made his 31st successful landing in the remarkable plane specially designed for his remarkable feat, Chuck was able to say casually: "We've punched so many holes in that old wall, you can see 'em all over the Mojave...
...Chuck climbed aboard the B29. He already knew what the X-1 would do below Mach 1 (the speed of sound). He had flown it many times, working it up gradually toward the critical speed. The rocket plane handled beautifully, both when flying under rocket power and when gliding down so quietly that Chuck could hear the clock ticking on the instrument panel. After each landing, Captain Jackie L. Ridley, Muroc flight test engineer, analyzed the records of the X-1's instruments. On the whole, they were encouraging. But no one was sure what would happen...
...airplane is turned over to a military test pilot as his "project." He takes it into the air, loaded with automatic recording instruments, to find out whether it lives up to the contractor's guarantees. Often a hidden defect, perhaps unknown even to the manufacturer, drags the plane out of the air. The pilot's best bet is to make an emergency landing on the broad lake. Bailing out alive from a modern jet plane is difficult; it is also part of the test pilot's code to bring the aircraft back if it is humanly possible...