Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pointed Up. It was shortly before 10 o'clock next morning when the 707 neared Brussels. Something must have been wrong in the cockpit: for the last 20 minutes of flight, Pilot Louis Lambrechts did not contact Brussels Airport. He made a wheels-down approach, but went round again, possibly because a Caravelle jet was taking off. On his second turn, breasting the flat fields near by at 500 ft., he increased his speed, wrapped the giant 707 into an almost vertical bank. Brussels tower flashed the emergency signal, and fire trucks and ambulances began rolling down the landing...
...public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga: he announced that he might star in a Mexican movie about the Santa Maria...
Lazing alongside were three French air force "Mistral" jets. One waggled its wings as if to signal to the Ilyushin. The Russian pilot stolidly pursued his course, and for eight minutes the jets merely kept pace. Then, suddenly, one of them whooshed ahead, turned and opened fire in the Russian plane's path. "International banditry," howled Moscow's pro test to France. The Ilyushin had been 82 miles off the Algerian coast at the time of the incident, declared the Russians. It had cleared properly with Algiers control, cried Moscow: the attack had been entirely unprovoked...
Under the vigorous direction of Dana Reed '43, the 1943 Album had ammassed a profit of some $1,500--a profit which the board members of later hoped to split up among themselves. After graduating from Harvard, the album staff joined the war effort. Reed became a Liberator bomber pilot; on Armistice Day, 1944, his plane was lost in bad weather somewhere over northern Italy. When the Album staff reassembled after the war, the profit motive had lost its allure. Eric Larabee, now editor of Horizon magazine remarked recently, "We suddenly had the impulse that does come to people occasionally...
Fate Is the Hunter, by Ernest K. Gann. A novelist (The High and the Mighty) and oldtime airline pilot, the author tells eloquently about the attrition of confidence, caused by too many close scrapes and too many dead comrades, that persuaded him to give up piloting...