Word: runway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired, headed for bed. Next morning they were up in time for a 10:30 a.m. takeoff. The sun had just broken through the clouds over Washington when their Constellation swept across the National Airport, wheeled to the south on a wide sweeping turn, and touched down on the runway at 3:55 p.m. Precisely at 4 o'clock, the Eisenhowers stepped out smilingly into the roped-off crowd at the MATS terminal-and into the political...
...meantime, steady old Charles has got himself into a diplomatic jam. Reminding herself of the guru's "Truth is in your own heart," Liz looks there, finds she still loves Charles, flies back to help him face the music. As they clinch on the runway, Charles says: "Let's not moan and groan . . . let's bill and coo." And they do. It completes a modern passage to India heavy with First Class platitudes...
Seven hours and 50 minutes later, the first pair of landing lights broke through the wet darkness. One by one the ten Superforts touched down, with a chirp of tires, between the yellow field lights edging the runway. Their report: "Mission accomplished...
...London time one misty afternoon last week, exactly on schedule, the commercial jet air age began. The dolphin-bodied de Havilland jet liner Comet got the take-off signal, swept down the runway at London Airport, its four turbines whistling a high pitch, and climbed seven miles into the air carrying a full load of 36 passengers, six crewmen and 30 bags of mail. The next day, as thousands watched at Johannesburg's Palmietfontein Airport, the silver and blue BOAC jet streaked down, ending its 6,724-mile trip. Total elapsed time: 23 hours, 38 minutes. This...
Blazing Floods. At 400 feet, however, just as the C46 was about to make a left-hand turn toward the southeast and Idlewild's Runway 13, it ran into a patch of drifting cloud which obscured visibility. Its captain, 27-year-old William B. Crockett Jr. of Fort Lauderdale (who was alone in the plane with his 29-year-old copilot and fellow townsman Jack L. Woerderhoff), was directed to pull up, and begin another approach...