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...center of it all, airport officials briskly and calmly set routine emergency procedures into motion. A score of fire trucks, dozens of ambulances and police cars, all with their red lights flashing, took up their stations along Runway 13 (pointing 130° southeast), toward the end of its 11,200-ft. stretch. Orbiting above the field, Flight 102's Pilot Edward Sommers, 44, kept checking with the tower for wind direction and the state of preparations for his landing. (Meanwhile, stewardesses served dinner to the remarkably hungry passengers.) At Pilot Sommers' request, Idlewild operations sent out fire trucks...
Tower: We're just checking on the runway...
...nearly four hours after Pilot Sommers took off, he came in, expertly putting down most of the plane's weight on its good right gear. As the 707 eased over on the left, scraping the damaged strut on the concrete runway, huge sheets of sparks flashed into the air, until at last the plane rolled safely to a stop, a good 200 feet short of the foam carpet. At least 1,000 spectators and airport employees surged forward, despite the obvious hazard of leaking fuel and fire. A baby in the crowd whimpered; her mother snapped: "Shut...
...four-engined plane, bearing the hammer and sickle on the fuselage, bore down through the haze toward a runway at New York International Airport, then pulled up again for a second approach and a safe, deft landing. Airport attendants and assembled dignitaries craned for a close look as it taxied up. The TU-114 turboprop was not only the first Russian jet to land in New York but had just made the 4,660 miles from Moscow in a nonstop...
...first test flight at Saunders-Roe's plant at Cowes, the Hovercraft rose 15 in. above the concrete runway. Test Pilot Peter Lamb maneuvered it easily, using a standard aircraft control stick. To dramatize the low friction of its air cushion, Inventor Christopher Cockrell pushed the four-ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hovercraft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial. It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic...