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Word: preradio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colliding with another plane in a sham combat attack over Texas; running out of fuel in a fog near Chicago when no one told him that his 120-gal. gasoline tank had been replaced with an 80-gal. tank; losing sight of the ground in a storm in those preradio years and finding his only field-illuminating flare had failed. He wrote that he had accepted his job as chief pilot on the St. Louis-Chicago mail route "with the understanding that each pilot be furnished with a new seat-type silk parachute and that no criticism be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: They Almost Grounded Lindy | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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