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Dream No Longer. To ATCmen such routes are no longer dreams. For months ATC has operated in the worst weather of the north subpolar country, has made operation routine. And no north-route flyer smiles as General George foretells the day when Americans may stop over on world trips in hotels on the Arctic icecaps, or make one-week round-trip business runs to Calcutta, Moscow or Chungking...
...Andrews was not a onesided air general; he held that blockade and attrition by all weapons offered the sure way to bring the Axis down. But flying was his great passion. He had about 6,000 hours on Army planes, and was an expert pilot even at 59. A flyer who knew him remarked, after hearing of the crash: "I'll bet Andy is bitching right now because he didn't take over that landing himself." And all the General's friends knew he had been ready for something like this a long time ago; he often...
...Battle Is Too Big. Typical is the story of stocky, plain-talking Clifford Mooers, founder of Shasta Oil Co. As a young man, Mooers prospected for gold in the Yukon, ran an Alaskan trading post for three years, was a flyer in World War I. Fitted for the risky business of wildcatting, he formed his Shasta Co. in 1925. For 17 years he was glad to take the long odds. But last month he decided he could not buck the new war regulations. He sold Shasta Co. to Stanolind for $750,000. Said he bluntly: "The present trend of bureaucratic...
...Spaatz, "covered our shipping, protected our ports, made many reconnaissance flights to assure the arrival of our convoys and assisted in the destruction of enemy shipping." The commander of this force was last week identified as Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd, a short, thickset, rough, gruff veteran flyer who was commander of Britain's Mediterranean air forces in 1941-42. One day last week his Beaufighters caught enemy torpedo-bombers trying to attack Allied naval forces, shot down...
Purdue Professor Everett Lowell Kelly knew how to fly and how to teach (clinical psychology). He also knew that not every good flyer is a good flight instructor. This knowledge served him well when the Civil Aeronautics Administration asked him to direct a project for working out a better technique for basic flight instruction...