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Sopwith, famed stunt flyer, hydroplane racer and aircraft builder (his World War II Hurricanes held off the German Luftwaffe), whose Endeavors twice challenged for the cup, lost in 1934 only by the narrowest of margins-four races to two-to Harold S. Vanderbilt's Rainbow...
...first flyer to break the sound barrier in level flight, back in 1947 in the old Bell X-1, Air Force Colonel Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 39, assumed command of a new U.S.A.F. school to teach latter-day rocket jockeys "everything they need to know about being astronauts." As first boss of the Aerospace Research Pilot School at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Yeager expects to help outdate himself: "By next year we'll be running 32 students through in a single class...
Less flambovant than Fellow Test Pilot Joe Walker (TIME, May11). White is the most serious flyer in the X-15 group. He and his pretty wife Doris live with their three children (one son, two daughters) in a three-bedroom house at Edwards Air Force Base, four miles from the green cement-block flight-operations center where White flies a desk when he is not jockeying X-15s and jets. They entertain only infrequently, take off for the Los Angeles beaches every chance they...
...time is 1905, and the principal character in the story is a Winton Flyer, one of the first automobiles ever seen in Yoknapatawpha County. Its owner is old Lucius ("Boss") Priest, a member of the cadet branch of the county's first families (the Edmondses and McCaslins), but its proud chauffeur is Boon Hogganbeck, the childlike, "tough, faithful, brave and completely unreliable" part Indian who be came famous in The Bear for not being able to hit anything with a shotgun, rifle or weapon of any kind...
With a smile, Chief Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita surrendered the periscope, while above him, in a watertight compartment on the forecastle deck, waited his Geta float plane. In it, he was about to become the only Japanese flyer to bomb the U.S. mainland in World...