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...Mountain. Last month Pilot Draper and his crew-as well as Press Secretary James Hagerty and a platoon of transportation, communications and security experts -took off in Ike's plane and flew to each airport on the President's itinerary to familiarize themselves with terrain, runway construction specifications (to make sure that landing strips could support the 248,000-lb. weight of the VC-137A), and to arrange for weather and safety controls...
...N3195N cleared for immediate takeoff," radioed the control tower. In the Harvard Flying Club's Cessna 120, N. De J. Portocarrero '61 taxied on to the runway and pulled back the throttle. Seconds later, the two-seater left Bedford Airport, making a wide turn toward Cambridge. As the plane droned over route 128 and the lakes and farms of Lexington, Portocarrero explained the instrument panel: airspeed--100 m.p.m., direction--south-east, altitude--1500 feet...
Kopit is the author of The Questioning of Nick, The Runway of Life, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, and Aubade, all presented at Harvard in recent years. He is currently on a Shaw Travelling Fellowship in Europe...
Khrushchev's departure from the U.S. had something of a sentimental quality. He drove onto the runway of Andrews...
Responded Crossfield nonchalantly, as he touched the runway on his skid gear...