Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Annapolis, Md. A Tennessee farm boy who graduated with the same U.S. Naval Academy class ('12) as Explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, Weems developed many navigational methods and devices, among them the Weems plotter, treasured by pilots from World War II on. An adviser to Byrd and Charles Lindbergh, Weems was often called back to duty after retiring as a Navy captain in 1933, the last time to devise an instrument allowing astronauts to find their way without using computers...
...named Alberta, enumerates 69 regular activities for hotel guests and their children; they range from frond weaving and night tide-pool fishing to breakfast cookouts and quarter-horse riding through terrain often photographed for Marlboro ads. Some families return to Hana as faithfully as Maui's whales. Charles Lindbergh, who lived for seven years with his wife Anne in Hana, is now buried there. Near by are the Seven Pools, two of which are favored by skinny-dippers: Poohahoahoa (meaning getting heads together) and Nakalaloa (complete forgiveness...
...favorite); he read Latin and Greek, occasionally poring over Aristotle in his office; he was a student of theology and philosophy; he was a military expert, having served Stateside in the Marines during World War I. He was also a skilled pilot who had flown with Charles Lindbergh in the Missouri National Guard. During World War II, Alex used to relax on weekends by test-piloting Grumman fighters...
...Miramar to Cessna: "Traffic in your vicinity is a PSA jet. Has you in sight. He is descending toward Lindbergh...
...special training for those wishing to enter the high-pressure "bird cages" around major airports should be required. But the problem is how this experience can be obtained without posing the very danger it is meant to prevent -as at San Diego, where the special training available only at Lindbergh Field drew the Cessna into the area...