Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unhappy airliner that flies into it is shaken from nose to tail without any warning whatever...
...dictating machine. An unwritten custom for both House and Senate reporters is to clean up little slips of grammar, fact or taste made by the solons. Once a Congressman leaped to his feet in a farm debate, said that the time had come to take the bull by the tail and look the situation squarely in the face. As discreetly as possible, the Record reporter straightened things...
...plane, on their way to Rio to play for Presidents Eisenhower and Kubitschek, were 23 members of the famed Navy Band. All were killed. Out of a total of 64 aboard the two planes, there were just three survivors-all U.S. Navymen who were riding in the shorn tail section of the Navy transport, which spun down from about 5,000 feet like a falling leaf, allowing them to escape alive with minor injuries...
...tried to handcrank his engine for a takeoff, the inertial starter clutch failed. "There I was," he says, "drifting to Honolulu. I cranked myself to exhaustion." After long minutes of finger drumming, Quesada suddenly recalled an old aviator's superstition. He went back and urinated on the tail. Naturally, the engine started up with the next turn of the crank...
...work on a transport that could operate economically between cities only null apart. Price: between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000-about half the cost of a DC-8 or Boeing 707. The first flights of the new plane with engines placed near the tail were so successful that eight airlines (among them: Air France, SAS, Alitalia, Sabena, Varig) have ordered 60 planes. The experts think that is just a starter, forecast a potential North American market of 500 Caravelles as replacements for aging piston-engined craft...