Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William P. Odom, 30, globe-girdling veteran flyer; in an airplane crash (his F51 Mustang went out of control at Cleveland's National Air Races); in Berea, Ohio. Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...
Pilot Barsov was the Russian who crash-landed his Soviet bomber at a U.S. airfield in Austria last October, and in Russian and broken English announced that he and his navigator, 2nd Lieut. Piotr Pirogov, wanted to see the U.S. They particularly wanted to see the state of Virginia, about which they had heard on the Voice of America. Brought to the U.S., they were marched through Virginia in high style, given the full hero-of-the-cold-war treatment (TIME, Feb. 14). Then the Voice of America gave them $100 apiece, and they were turned loose in the land...
...travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district-Indiana, Armstrong and Cambria counties. She was campaigning to fill the unexpired term of her son. Colonel Robert Lewis Coffey Jr., World War II fighter pilot, killed last April in a jet-plane crash...
...Coffey's youngest son, William, was also killed in an Air Force bomber crash in the U.S. A third son, John, a World War II navigator with 35 missions, is now helping his mother campaign...
...Cannes, while his great & good friend, Hollywood's Merle Oberon, 38, watched his private plane take off for Venice, wealthy Italian Count Giorgio Cini, 30, was killed in a crash when he flew low to buzz the airstrip. Cinemactress Oberon cried: "My life is finished. There's no point in going...