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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Hancox: "Mike Sierra . . . we're approximately fifteen miles from you . . . we're turning on our landing lights. Over." "Roger," said Plata, "we have you in sight now, 2124. We have the nose light on. We're flashing it on and off. Do you see us?" Replied Hancox: "Affirmative." Dumping Gas. Mike Sierra's Pilot Plata now had a severe weight problem: under rigid Civil Aeronautics Board safety regulations, a Super Constellation must not touch the ground unless it weighs no more than 110,000 Ibs.; to land at greater weight is to jeopardize aircraft...
...Roger, we're cleared to drop gas." Then, jubilantly, "we have New York in sight...
...only 15 minutes from Idlewild and within sight of the brilliant lights of Manhattan, the Constellation burst into orange fire. It lurched sharp to the right, held steady for ten seconds, swerved sharply right again. Then it nosed, plunged 8,000 ft. to the sea, exploded...
...door details and houses. Encouraged by his mother, he progressed to blood-and-thunder pictures of Indians he had read about in James Fenimore Cooper (he can still rattle off the names of 30 tribes) and knights from Ivanhoe. At twelve he was proficiently drawing nudes-a common sight in the house, since Eliel Saarinen was then busy designing Finland's national currency, using nude models (while grandfather Juno Saarinen, a Lutheran minister, sat in the background rheumily chattering about religion and philosophy...
...them, the 50-year-old man and the girl, shot into the water. He swam to her and held her head above water until the boat could circle back and she was hauled aboard. But as hands reached down to seize Trotman's hand, he sank out of sight...