Word: strato
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crash was the fourth in two years on the profitable steerage-class run, shuttling Puerto Ricans between the home island and the back streets of New York City. Most of the traffic, on unscheduled flights, is handled by ex-service pilots with war-surplus planes-like the Strato Freight Co., which operated the Commando in last week's crash. It hauls the islanders for $60 one way, flies whenever it has a load. It had operated strictly within the letter of the law. Refurbished and approved in April by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the Commando was actually flying...
From his plane window 20 miles off, Radiological Monitor Bradley saw the "huge column of clouds, dense, white, boiling up through the strato-cumulus." The next move in Operation Crossroads was his; and a few minutes later he and his plane were flying toward Bikini Atoll and the "evil mushrooming" column...
...modern airliner is a nightmare of instruments, switches, knobs, push buttons and warning lights. They crowd for attention in front of the pilot and copilot. They encrust the walls, drip from the roof like stalactites and overflow into the cubbyhole where the flight engineer sits. On a Boeing Strato-liner, there are 598 gadgets to watch. The three-man crew must know what each one is, where it is, and how to use it instantly. In an emergency, a few seconds of fumbling may mean a crash...
Patterson figures he will carry 2,325,000 passengers this year, more in the future. He has already ordered the planes to do the job: 35 DC-6s, seven Boeing Strato-cruisers, 50 Martin two-motored 3035. Unlike some other lines, United did not over-order, has not canceled an order for a single plane. Nor has it had to scratch for cash to pay for them. Recently it raised $49,000,000, got even conservative Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which had never invested in an airline before...
...strato-chamber" for physiological tests under pressures equivalent to altitudes up to 80.000 feet. (Temperature in the chamber can be dropped...