Word: runway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closed in Frankfurt's Rhine-Main Airport one night last week; the administration building's lights could not be seen across the field. Near the runway, in a red and white checkered trailer, three G.I. technicians bent over their separate receivers-Search Scope, Middle Scope, Final Scope...
Safety First. In Honolulu, Airport Manager William Holloway rushed out to the auto obstructing Runway 4, learned that Hamai Shizuo had chosen the field as just the place to teach his friend to drive...
...copilot, his 39 passengers and two stewardesses live just eight minutes longer. When the trouble struck, the DC-6 was not far from Sunbury. Minutes later, down to 900 feet, it was plunging through a valley, skimming a mountain, and apparently heading for a small airport at Shamokin. The runway was not long enough to take his 70,000-lb. ship, but the pilot might have risked a belly landing. Flyers there could not figure it out; the big plane's motors sounded all right and they saw no smoke or fire...
...throbs in the pilot's headset. If the instructor chooses to start a fire in an engine, an alarm bell blasts, the pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing. The crewmen come back from their simulated flight in a sweat that is not simulated...
...Amne Machin Mountains of West China. When peripatetic Pen-Manufacturer Milton Reynolds went looking for such a peak (TIME, April 12), he ran into trouble with the Chinese government, failed to get anywhere or prove anything. Last week, another expedition quietly took off from a hard-packed loess runway at Lanchow to make the first recorded flight directly over the Amne Machins...