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...Tenzing Day. In India, where he lives (in a Darjeeling slum), a public subscription was opened to build him a new home, and when he and Hillary arrived at New Delhi Airport this week, 3,000 fans burst the police cordons and swept him a quarter mile down the runway, shouting "Tenzing Zindabad!" (Long Live Tenzing...
Broken rain clouds hung low over Tachikawa Air Base last week as the EUR-124 Globemaster, biggest of the Air Force's transport craft, lumbered to the end of the runway. Visibility was a safe 2½ miles, and the 122 Air Force and Army passengers chatted easily as the massive, two-deck plane made a perfect takeoff...
...transferred to the Air National Guard would not be part of the ready Air Force. "With the kind of warning we expect to get of a Soviet atomic attack, the defense and strategic wings must be ready, some of the crews in planes at the end of the runway...
...suit all types of aircraft or all types of pilots. The problem for Government committees, cooperating with civil and military airmen, is to select from this plethora a common system that will enable instrument-flying pilots to find any airport, avoid all obstacles and land safely on an invisible runway...
...silver belly of the newest Douglas transport, the DC-7. For an hour, Pilot Martin and his three engineers gave last-minute checks to the 600 dials and indicators in the cockpit and flight engineer's compartment. Then they sent the huge, four-engine plane scooting along the runway and into the air on its first test flight, while 12,000 Douglas employees around the field set up a cheer...