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...Gentlemen, start your engines." The laconic command, copied from the Indianapolis 500 auto race, echoed from the public-address system of the U.S.S. Hancock. Moments later, the commander of Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463, Lieut. Colonel Herbert Fix, lifted his CH-53 Sea Stallion off the deck of the aging carrier. When the other seven choppers in his squadron had left the deck, they fluttered off in a tight formation through blustery winds and dark, ominous rain clouds that hovered over the South China Sea. Operation "Frequent Wind," the emergency evacuation of the last Americans in Saigon, was under...
Waldo Pepper is a young man who spends his brief life one step behind history, hurrying to catch up and never quite making it. The greatest natural flyer his World War I squadron leader ever saw, Waldo nevertheless came too late for the greatest days of aerial combat, particularly the chance to duel the German ace of aces, Ernst Kessler. Barnstorming in an aerial circus during the mid-'20s, he senses that the tide has once more turned against him. The aviation establishment is now interested in proving to the public that flying is a safe and reliable means...
COMMAND POST IN THE SKY: Defense Secretary James Schlesinger this month urged Congress to approve the construction of a squadron of modified Boeing 707s equipped with monstrous, mushroom-shaped radar domes for the Air Force's new airborne warning and control system (AWACS). Literally a command post in the sky, each plane will cost $111 million-the most expensive plane ever built by the Air Force. Packed with computers, radars and jamming gear, the AW ACS will be able to spot far-off targets, including very low-flying planes, and feed instructions to wide-ranging U.S. combat aircraft. Over...
Northeastern pounced on an injury-riddled Crimson crew at the outset, as it copped firsts in four out of the six field events. Harvard's usually potent field squadron was hampered by the absence of co-captain Blayne Heckel, out with a pulled hamstring, and long-jump artist Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, who is still nursing a knee injury sustained...
Cornell did just that as it was hoping its four big guns would shoot down the high-flying Crimson squadron. Unfortunately for the Big Red, all of its shots fell short as it was bombarded by Harvard...