Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading your interesting article, I came across your picture captioned "Alfa Helicopter Pilot on Pursuit Exercise." This picture appears to have been taken through the nose station of a P2V-7F Neptune patrol plane. Having flown the latter plane, I am positive your picture was taken through what we call our "Poker parlor...
...fine tactical films he made during the unpleasantness of the '40's ? In the story, however, your hypoxic staffer was understandably carried away by overexposure to so much brass in such rarefied atmosphere. The good greying admiral never could have done a "snap roll" tied to another plane's wing. Slow roll yes, but a snap roll is an axial roll involving a partial stall, and were you to try this maneuver tied wing-to-wing with another fly machine, you would experience a feeling of togetherness which you would never get over. J. SHELDON LEWIS Chief...
...further here. Virginia lives in the present. The three girl tormentors, however, are not facets of her personality but rather three historical crises in her life. Laurents, perhaps taking a cue from Jacqueline's dream in Rolland's novel Jean Christophe, has put them all on the same temporal plane--the present--so that the three can converse and interact with themselves, with Virginia, and with the other characters in the play. This dangerous gimmick, adumbrated in Death of a Salesman, works beautifully here and the result is highly effective theatre. It is a fine play, and some day will...
Scared Silly. As the pressure built up, Idlewild gave grudging ground at week's end. It granted a 30-day extension to Pan Am to continue nonpassenger 707 flight tests between New York and Puerto Rico, allowing night flights and lifting the plane's weight restrictions from 190,000 Ibs. to the fully loaded capacity of 247,000 Ibs. But planes will still be required to follow strict flight and climb patterns that minimize annoyance to householders, because the Authority, said one airman, is still "scared silly" by its lawyers' warnings of possible householders' damage suits...
...little-known firms making computers, printed circuits, servomechanisms, communications and navigation equipment. When Litton bought Digital Controls Systems Inc. in 1954, it also got brilliant Research Scientist George Steele; Steele heads Litton's work on lightweight computers that make up to 15,000 calculations per second for a plane in flight. Litton also lured other top brains away from big companies by granting stock options. Dr. Henry Singleton left North American Aviation for Litton, where in three years he produced the answer to one of the Pentagon's toughest problems: an inertial guidance system that is light enough...