Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rotor-lifted aircraft, able to take off and land from rooftops, parks or squares in the heart of the biggest cities, are already eliminating that most exasperating aspect of fixed-wing air transport, the long surface trip to outlying airports. The Belgian airline, Sabena, is operating a helicopter service between Brussels, Bonn, Lille, Maastricht and Rotterdam. Helicopter services are carrying passengers and mail in and around New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. City councils all over the U.S. have accepted the theory that the helicopter will not only replace the DC-3 on air feeder lines but may augment...
Crop-dusting, hazardous when performed with low-flying, fixed-wing aircraft, is as safe as surrey-riding when done with helicopters. The owner of a big Texas pecan grove no longer sends Mexican laborers clambering into his trees?he simply flies a helicopter over the grove when the nuts get ripe, and the rotor blows the crop to the ground before lunchtime on harvest day. The whirlybird is proving a heaven-sent device for motion-picture directors; a camera fixed in a helicopter can hang motionless high in the sky over battle scenes, or follow the U.S. Cavalry...
...injury to right wing Bill Lingelbach will force Munro to use either Grif Buttrick or Bill Cowperthwaite in that spot. Stacy Holmes may be handicapped buy an old sprain, but Munro is counting on him today...
Diminutive wing Daniel Chu sparks the Brown attack which had had little more success at scoring than the Crimson. A former Mount Hermon Standout, Chuspecializes in setting up co-captains Chuck Gesen, inside, and Chick Swanson, center...
...host team jumped to an early lead when Tim Farrier put the ball past starting goalie Pete Briggs. Crimson wing Bill Cowperthwaite set up the play that squared matters shortly thereafter and got credit for the goal when the ball bounced off a Springfield defender and into the cage...