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...Shrewd, levelheaded, anything but temperamental, he could take it in his stride when a snow-heavy trap door rattled and banged through Debussy's placid Afternoon of a Faun (as it did one night in Utica, N. Y.), or when he found himself conducting on the strippers' runway in some cramped burlesque house. He was not above giving the Pathétique Symphony the fastest performance on record so that the orchestra could catch its train...
...From the tower the operators saw Flight 6 break out over the red neon-light "ladder" marking the end of Run way No. 1 (east-west). Pilot Scott was a little high, perhaps by miscalculation, perhaps by design. Flight 6, down to around 300 feet, zipped west over the runway, made a gentle turn to the left. It looked as if Scott had decided to circle the field, make his landing on Runway No. 6 (south-north) into the gentle wind...
Japan, who had demanded temporary permission to quarter 6,000 men at specified bases in Tonkin Protectorate, was building permanent barracks for 25,000 near the capital, Hanoï. Three first-class airdromes, one with a concrete runway to handle the heaviest bombers, were being constructed. It was an open secret that once her northern base was completed, Japan intended to move south, probably in March or April. Japanese officers and merchants were securing houses in Hanoï on three-year leases "in the name of the Emperor" and forbidding Frenchmen to use the sidewalk in front of them. Even...
...control-tower speaker came Captain Scott's businesslike voice: "Contact-1,500"; i.e., at 1,500 feet he was out of the clouds, could see the ground. The laggard wind had freshened to 9 m.p.h. and Phil Scott had radioed he would come in on the northwest runway. As he made his turn, baggage handlers began wheeling their carts down to the gate where he was to dock...
...laid down squarely in the midst of Alaska's 'toughest winter weather. The ground thaws on top but always remains frozen two or three feet down. There, working three shifts in Alaska's 24-hour summer daylight, Army engineers have laid down a two-mile-long runway and reared the first of Ladd Field's hangars and shops. There, this winter, Air Corps pilots and mechanics will get their first big lesson in Arctic operations...