Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flying Nun was fantasy, but in Los Angeles the airborne Archbishop is for real. To enable Roman Catholic Archbishop Roger Mahony to get around his three-county, 8,700-sq.-mi. archdiocese, anonymous businessmen have given him a $400,000 jet-powered helicopter. Mahony is upgrading his pilot's license so he can fly it solo. Zinging along at 160 m.p.h., he can cut the travel time to the seminary at Camarillo to 15 minutes; by car it took up to 2 1/2 hours. Archdiocesan spokesmen insist the money has not been diverted from other purposes: the contributors are donating...
Collins says she is particularly proud of a pilot program that brought together teachers and both state and local officials to plan a merit pay system...
Miraculously, the plane never hit the sea. Though both starboard engines were disabled, probably by debris, veteran pilot David Cronin, 58, skillfully reduced altitude and nudged his crippled craft along the 100-mile journey back to Honolulu International Airport. As he touched down at 2:33 a.m., one hour after the plane had taken off, everybody aboard burst into applause and then slid swiftly down the escape chutes. Said passenger Bruce Lampert: "I can tell you that was a long flight back." Afterward, a dozen people were hospitalized...
...appreciate peace promoters' efforts at consumer education, even if they do not always follow the advice. After listening to a member of the War Resisters League, Philip Jee, 17, a senior at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, remained unshaken in his determination to become a Navy pilot. "It made me think," he said of the presentation. "But it didn't make me change my mind...
...spokesperson John Leyden in Washington said the pilot reported losing power in one right-side engine nine minutes after takeoff and, after turning to Honolulu, eight minutes later radioed he had lost power in the other right-side engine...