Word: flyer
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...large demand for steam does not interfere with operation of the ship's turbines. Nearly every type of Britain's newest carrier planes has been catapulted, and enthusiastic pilots report that the launching is an entirely new experience. "It eases you up so beautifully," said a U.S. flyer attached to the Fleet Air Arm, "that you almost forget you're being catapulted...
This week, at the Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine, scientists were busy perfecting an accurate little gadget that will warn the high-altitude flyer when the oxygen in his bloodstream is dropping toward the danger point. Clamped on the translucent cartilage of a pilot's ear, a tiny light bulb emitting red and infra-red rays will shine through the ear lobe to illuminate a small photoelectric cell. As the oxygen saturation of the pilot's blood drops below its normal 98%, it will turn a darker, heavier red. Less light will filter through...
...earlier science-fiction thriller made last year by the same producer. There are some shots of a familiar-looking space ship and rumors of an impending collision between the earth and Bellus, but the picture spends most of its time on a cold love triangle between a hot flyer, a hot woman scientist, and a drab doctor. Unfortunately the picture never shows how the world would act as Doomsday approached...
After a stint as a Marine flyer in World War II, Fox took his first flyer in gas. He tried to get control of the New England Gas & Electric Assoc. in 1948, lost out by ½ of 1% of the votes in a bitter proxy fight. But he salvaged something from defeat; the company stock he had bought to further his fight had climbed in value and he sold out with a profit estimated at close...
...have a one-shot chance tonight to see one of the best movie fantasies ever made. "Stairway to Heaven" is about a wartime British flyer who is shuttled about a bit by heavenly bureaucracy; it combines quietly plausible acting with some spectacularly implausible technicolor photography. Kim Hunter is very pretty, and Stairway's heavenly stairway is one of a spate of remarkable sets. It is no movie to miss