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...mean is: we have very few windshield wipers to wipe the snow away-have to open the windshield of the machine so you could see. The outcome is this, that as the broom works, it sweeps the snow in the air and the wind blows it in the cab, and the result is that eight hours of that continuous work, you'll have icicles running down your eyes and nose and your hands are frozen to that wheel, and that's what causes the greatest amount of sick rates. The sick rate is terrifically high in the City...
...sport to shoot up trains; I had never tried it before. Somewhat southwest of Savona, we spent a whole day watching the railroad. Just after dark we got about 400 yards offshore. A train popped out of the tunnel and we fired. The first shell exploded just inside the cab where the driver was. Several of our shells hit the posts which carry the electric line. It was a 5,000-volt system. For about a mile there was a solid sheet of flame where the wires swung against the ground. The bushes and stuff were dry. They caught fire...
Behncke protests that cramming 1,000 Ib. of added payload into commercial planes, most of which are five or six years old, would be highly risky for pilots and passengers. CAB engineers have made exhaustive test flights in DC-3s loaded to the higher weight limits, and the Air Transport Command calmly loads its DC-35 up to 29,000 Ib. for military flights. But Dave Behncke is unconvinced. "What I'm thinking of," he argues, "is the cushion of safety which the pilot must have to land safely if something goes wrong while in flight, and that cushion...
...added 1,000 Ib. per plane would not solve the airlines' wartime traffic problem. Only more planes can do that. But the Behncke-CAB row marks a milestone in air transport labor relations. Ever since 1934, when Behncke was an airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed...
...issue now is: Will CAB or Dave Behncke write the laws regulating the safe and efficient operations of commercial air transports...