Word: sundin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automobile accident-bing, now you're driving, now you're not," said Ground School Instructor Donald Sundin. "But take a plane now, and you've got time to do things. Say you lose an engine at 5,000 feet. Well, you lose maybe 500 or 600 feet a minute, and you glide 1½ miles a minute. That gives you about ten minutes during which you can find a spot to land within a 900-square-mile area." Sundin burned into the students' brains the radio frequency of 121.5 megacycles, the universal "Mayday" channel...