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...cereal is next. Are you sure that's oatmeal? Oh, I believe you. No thank you. I'll take Rice Krispies instead. Corn muffin . . . hey, watch it with that butter. You almost hit me. Yes, cocoa, two glasses of orange juice, and melon. What's that? You can't take juice and melon? Oh, I see. "Choice...
...hours earlier had washed away the fog, and now visibility was good, and the skies were smeared with only a slight overcast. The first plane, Alpha, was skyborne; next came Bravo, and it poured down the runway, lifted up, trailing four black swirls of smoke. The third tanker, Cocoa, rolled into take-off position and got ready to follow...
...Inside Cocoa, strapped into parachutes and Mae Wests, buckled to seats, heavily helmeted, sat Brigadier General Donald W. Saunders, 45, commander of the four-plane mission; a six-man crew headed by Plane Commander Lieut. Colonel George Broutsas, 39; and eight civilians. William J. Cochran, 36, and William R. Enyart, 57, were officials of the National Aeronautic Association who were making the trip as official observers. The other six were newsmen assigned to cover the record-making flight: the U.S. News & World Report's A. Robert Ginsburgh, 63, a retired Air Force brigadier general, and Glen A. Williams...
...plane lifted into the darkness, bound for disaster. Just beyond the field's edge, the right wing dipped; men on the ground saw its green starboard light go down slowly, then sharply, had a swift vision of the pilots fighting for control over what seemed a power failure. Cocoa was gone; its right wing dug into the ground as its uplifted left wing snapped into high tension wires strung 70 ft. above the ground. About 45 seconds after the big aircraft had begun rolling, it skittered through fields, bounced across the Massachusetts Turnpike, exploded with a shattering roar...
Said saddened Air Force Chief of Staff Tommy White, referring to the newsmen who died on Cocoa: "We share with them the conquest of time and space. They share with us the dangers of that conquest . . . The men who observe and report the achievements of science and skill ... are partners in these achievements. They are also partners in the sacrifices that are sometimes the price of progress...