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...destination, too, but it was born of a hunch and a prayer. Her captain, Norwegian Scientist Thor Heyerdahl, hoped to be carried by wind and currents to Polynesia and thus help establish his thesis: that the prehistoric settlers of Polynesia sailed from Peru. Anthropologists may argue whether Skipper Heyerdahl made his point, but no one can deny that Kon-Tiki, his book about the attempt, and the September Book-of-the-Month Club choice, is one of the best man-against-the-elements yarns to crop up in many a year...
...first carriers built as such were the old Lexington and Saratoga* Radford got duty on the Sara in 1929, within a year was skipper of the carrier's Fighting Squadron One. This outfit became known as the High Hat Squadron, and astounded the country with virtuoso exhibitions of precision acrobatics. Radford was a superbly confident and skillful pilot by that time, but he was more than a mere stunter. He was interested in precision flying, precision machines, precision methods of making...
...they build an airplane any bigger they'll have to give the aircraft commander a desk and a secretary to help him run things," a harassed plane skipper groused last week. The pilots, sitting far forward in the ribbed, safety-glass nose, can't even see back to the six engines at mid-fuselage. Said one: "It's like standing in the bay window and flying your house...
...past. One weekend every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest, closest-knit Sunday fighter outfit-with first place in flight time over all other west coast squadrons. All of the pilots were combat veterans, all but eight were married...
...This Is It." The Juneau's executive officer, her skipper, Captain Jesse C. Sowell, and Admiral Higgins worked late that night over their maps. Commander W. B. Porter, the ship's executive, pointed out that north of the 40th parallel the Han-kyung railroad held close to the coast. This was the logical supply line...