Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles away, the flaming, disintegrating F-104 slammed into the ground; Walker's shattered corpse was also inside his craft-minus his helmet, leading to speculation that he might have been killed as the B70 sheared through his canopy...
...Walker, 45, a self-effacing onetime Pennsylvania farm boy, the tragedy spelled the end of a daredevil career that reached its climax with the 1963 X-15 record altitude flight in which he touched the skirts of space, buttressed the theory (now under investigation by NASA) that man may be able to leave and return to the atmosphere in fixed-wing craft...
...Indefensible." At week's end, as the Air Force convened a 62-member board of inquiry, few thought that Walker could have carelessly rammed the bomber; there was speculation that turbulence or the B-70's backwash may have caused the collision. But the circumstances surrounding the crack-up raised other questions. Though it is standard procedure for manufacturers of Air Force equipment to take pictures of their craft in flight, both for publicity and research purposes, even Pentagon officials conceded that last week's spectacular line-up was hardly standard...
Died. Joseph A. Walker, 45, foremost U.S. test pilot; in a mid-air collision of his F-104 Starfighter with one of the two XB-70 research bombers; near Barstow, Calif, (see THE NATION...
...LAST GENTLEMAN by Walker Percy. 409 pages. Farrar, Straus & G/Voux...