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...Washington, World War II hero Maynard H. ("Snuffy") Smith, 41, who won the Medal of Honor for some cool-headed shooting and lifesaving on an Eighth Air Force bomber, was sentenced to ten days in jail for turning in a false report in a suicide hoax. Smith, it was claimed, was trying for some publicity to help boost his chances for becoming governor of Virginia. The hoax: as a young mother pretended to jump from the sixth floor of a Y.W.C.A. building, Snuffy bravely crawled out on the ledge and "persuaded" her to come back...
...made chief Army test pilot after the war. In 1922, when the wings of a plane he was flying dropped off in midair, he became the first Army pilot to parachute to safety from a disabled plane. Harris racked up 13 air records, test-piloted the first big U.S. bomber in 1922, the six-engine Barling. In 1926 he went to Peru, and flew crop-dusting planes, later became vice president and general manager of Peruvian Airways and from 1929-42 was operations manager of Panagra. Made a brigadier general in World War II, he bossed the training and domestic...
Consolidated Vultee, whose giant B60 lost out to Boeing's 6B-52 as the Air Forces' intercontinental bomber of the future, this week won a contract that may put it out ahead in fighter planes. It got the first production contract in the U.S. for a delta-wing jet fighter, the F-102. The new 20,000-lb. plane will be powered by Pratt & Whitney's J57 jet (TIME, May 28, 1951) and will be armed with rockets fired automatically with new controls developed by Howard Hughes' aircraft company. Convair expects its supersonic...
...through two hours of the first public sampling of Cinerama was the "three dimensional" sensation to eyes & ears (TIME, July 2, 1951). The illusion jammed the spectators into the front car of a whipping roller coaster, then into a gliding Venetian gondola, then in the nose of a converted bomber as it soared across plains and mountains...
Lieut. Gennady Mishin, Soviet Air Force Serial No. 25054, is the only definitely identified Russian casualty of the Korean war. On Sept. 4, 1950 (eleven days before MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon), Mishin's twin-engine bomber was shot down in the Yellow Sea, near the 38th parallel, by fighters from the U.S. carrier Valley Forge. A destroyer got Mishin's body from the wreckage before it sank. According to the U.S. report, the Red-starred Russian plane flew "toward the center of the U.N. [naval] formation in a hostile manner," eventually opening fire...