Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aviator who obeys that impulse to make a playful pass at a lumbering transport plane, to fly formation, waggle his wings and cut in front is not risking his life alone. In this day of crowded schedules he is more than likely gambling with the lives of the liner's parachuteless pilot, copilot, stewardess and 21 high-priority passengers...
...hard at this form of high jinks, served notice that it was going to keep on being tough about it. To Ernest E. Basham Sr., 56-year-old chief test pilot for Consolidated Aircraft at Fort Worth, the board handed out a stiff penalty: total revocation of his airline-transport-pilot certificate. That means he may not fly, and CAB sources said grimly that he would probably stay grounded for two years. Pilot Basham had been found guilty of twice flying B-24 Liberator bombers less than 500 feet from American Airlines transports...
...Blevans, North American Aviation test pilot, drew a six-month suspension from CAB for flying a B-25 Mitchell bomber within 150 feet of a TWA plane near Adrian, Tex. Blevans, who had no previous incidents charged against him, admitted his error .in cutting in front of the transport, which was rolled over at a 45° angle by his propwash...
...Miss Ame. Then the Young Soldier meets fat, jolly Mr. Transportouse (Transport House is the head quarters of Britain's conservative labor leaders, loathed by leftish Laborites), who genially expounds the wonders that will come from Labor Party gradualism. He takes out of a box two tiny human figures -Mr. Ema (Education for the Masses) and Miss Ame (Ministress for Amenities). They deliver pretty speeches about classless education and beautiful laborsaving apartments for all. This meeting slightly lifts the Young Soldier's spirits. He hurries past a gesticulating Robot mechanically expounding Marxism and predicting Capitalism's postwar...
When World War II began Llewellyn became transport officer routing shows around for ENSA (Entertainments National Services Association). Early in 1940 he joined the Army, was soon made a captain. Later there was some kind of fuss...