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...Mirage dry lake, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, the Southern California chapter, which has 250 members, last week was able to mount a 44-plane air force for its annual flyin, put on a dazzling display of aerial stunts, precision landings, and simulated bombing with colored flour sacks. The gyrocopters came as plain or fancy as the owners could afford, but all were equipped with a pusher engine, one rudder, one rotor blade, and a single seat with steering stick. The gas tank holds six gallons, good for about an hour's flight. The craft can rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Chairs That Fly | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...Convoy flyin' through Man Giang Pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE PURPLE HEART BOOGIE | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...result his sidemen feel free to swing privately. Sometimes the players seem to be digging their own private scene, but on a good night they stir up a roomful of creative excitement. Hamp's arrangements are the raunchiest in the business, but when the band plays Flyin' Home, its audience seems content to forget all that jazz about jazz being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Big-Band Renaissance | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...evidently there is no escaping American bureaucratese. The Peking Review's advertisements for Flyin-Pigeon bicycles and Ostrich brand ink both speak of "finalizing" orders...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: The Peking Season | 10/1/1962 | See Source »

...song, but Transfusion sold half a million records in two weeks, is now inching toward the million mark. As Nervous Norvus ("I invented Nervous; I'm the cat that invented that"), Drake found himself famous. He has since produced another hit called Ape Call. "The pterodactyl was a flyin' fool, a breeze-flappin' Daddy of the o-o-ld school." He expects to make around $65,000 this year, but he has an anchor to windward. "The boss told me I can always get my job back with that cool trucking company," he says. "Now wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cutting the Mustard | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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