Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other crew members who survived remembered no steep dive. Their accounts were all the same; the engines had been throttled, the plane had gone into a normal glide, turned, crashed. They had thought Rod Sullivan was making a routine landing...
...feet, under a 5,000-foot ceiling, the roar of the 314's four big engines suddenly died away to a mutter. The Clipper went into a glide. Almost on the water, Rod Sullivan unaccountably wheeled into a turn, brushed a wing on the water. This was his first bad crash in 101 transatlantic flights...
When CABmen got to Lisbon, Rod Sullivan tried to help them solve the mystery of the crash. But he could not understand what had happened. The plane, he said, had suddenly gone into a steep dive. He had pulled the throttles, turned to make an emergency landing. He agreed that a better remedy would have been to increase power to pull the plane out of its unusual attitude. He could not say why he had not done...
...riveter had a tiny steel splinter imbedded deep in his left eye near the retina. Unable to reach it frontally the surgeon laid open the back of the eyeball. Then an assistant moved a pencil-like divining rod over the surface until he located precisely the right spot. The surgeon made two small incisions, moved the tip of an electromagnet close, and out popped the splinter...
...clock in the afternoon. They fished from a launch in Lake Huron, in the clear blue icy waters around Birch Island in Canada's famed Manitoulin district. First trip out the Old Fisherman took five smallmouth black bass, one medium-sized musky. His tackle: a light trout rod, a pearl spoon...