Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from Friedrich's Gov 106, the theory side of Government in conducted at a less intense level. Professor Wright's course in American Political Thought has been temporarily abandoned with the professor's departure; but this is no great loss. Far better courses are given by Professor Beer, a stimulating lecturer and one of the bright young men of the Department. Both his classes in Comparative and Parliamentary Government are well worth taking...
...Sagau '48 of South Orange, New Jersey; Howard Hugh Schless '46 to Philadelphia; Noel Marshall Seeburg, Jr. '46 of Chicago; Garabad Shargabian '48 of Roxbury; Jason Loonard Starr '49 of Mattapan; Robert Brown Voitle, Jr. '50 of Pttsburgh, Pennsylvania; Richard Wingard Wallach '49 of New York City; and Christopher, Wright '49 of Chicago
...Enough Money. The 90-odd pilots of the Flight Test Division, most of them based at Wright Field, have the highest prestige of any group in the peacetime Air Force. Slim, unshakably calm Colonel Albert Boyd, 42, chief of the division, picks his men with minute care. Their records must show that they are not "accident prone." Formal engineering training is valuable, but character is essential. The prospective test pilot must be alert, intelligent, stable and not excitable. He must be enthusiastic about the work. There isn't enough money, explains Colonel Boyd undramatically, to pay for what...
Last fall Chuck Yeager was asked to help dedicate an airport in West Virginia, his home state. Flying down from Wright Field in an F-80 jet fighter, he found the Kanawha River at Charleston crowded with a motorboat regatta. Chuck roared down the river, 20 ft. above the boats, at almost 600 m.p.h., shot under a highway bridge, did two slow rolls, and zoomed out of sight...
Back from the wars, Chuck married Glennis in Hamlin. As a shot-down man, he just about had his choice of jobs in the Air Force. He tried instructing for a while, but found it dull. Then he got to Wright Field as a flight test pilot. After watching him do the most exacting tests (like landing jet fighters "hard"), Colonel Boyd gave him the X-1 project, which all ambitious test pilots wanted. "Chuck is always cool," says Colonel Boyd. "He never gets excited, and he flies like part of the airplane...