Word: aloft
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...Fleets of aerial tankers based strategically around the free world, actually refueling fighters and bombers aloft at the rate of one every five minutes around the clock...
Nixon's simple way to express friendship: shaking hands with close to 100,000 amazed Asians. Aloft between countries, while Pat wrote thank-you notes to the last stop, the Vice President prepared for the next stop with intensive briefings by embassy officials. Since Nixon's return, and partly as a result of his findings, certain viewpoints are gaining headway in Washington. Among them...
...major's tent made short work of him and his fellows, while outside, Indian and Galong heads fell right & left. During the slaughter, three Galong porters managed to escape and carry news of the massacre to headquarters as the triumphant Dafias, holding the heads of their victims aloft, went into a wild dance of victory...
...stormy North Atlantic are items of reassurance for those who know about them. Supported by the U.S. and 14 Atlantic countries, the weatherships supply the streams of data that are the raw material of modern weather analysis. Their sounding balloons, sent up at frequent intervals, report on conditions aloft. Their radio beacons are like lighthouses on the empty ocean. Sometimes the ships serve as lifesaving stations...
Working round the clock, Ryan gets The Spirit of St. Louis built in 60 days. In the meanwhile, Flyers Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta, preparing for a hop of their own, set a new endurance record, staying aloft 51 hrs. 11 min. 25 sec. Lindbergh frets, but death, accidents and delay soon begin to scratch the other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word...