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...setting was tragically familiar. At 3:33 a.m., the pilot of a twin-engine transport plane arriving from New York radioed that he was lost in a thick haze somewhere near Los Angeles. At 3:54, as the pilot began feeling his way down through the haze, the plane caught one wing tip on the crest of a slope, and plunged into a hillside in suburban Whittier Heights. The crew of three and all 26 passengers aboard were killed. The plane was a war-surplus C46 Curtiss Commando, operated by a nonscheduled carrier-the fourth non-sked C46 to crash...
...raining heavily as the C46 Curtiss Commando snored down through the morning overcast over Long Island and headed for New York's big Idlewild International Airport. The plane, a cargo transport, had left Fort Lauderdale, Fla. seven hours before with 13,700 Ibs. of cut flowers, fresh vegetables and lingerie. It had made a routine flight, with fuel stops at Charleston, S.C. and Raleigh, N.C., and despite the murk it seemed about to make an equally routine landing-the ceiling hung at 500 feet and visibility was a mile and a half...
...have-so far-not dared to throw their air potential against the U.N. lines. This Communist timidity has brought about a situation unprecedented since the airplane became a weapon: the side with fewer planes has used them to kill thousands of enemy soldiers and to harass enemy supply and transport, without suffering retaliation in kind. Whatever the Communists may do in the future, up to now they have been just as afraid of "widening the war" as the U.N. Perhaps, on the record, a little more...
...York,*raised in England, and became a British citizen in 1936, was an R.A.F. pilot during World War II. He shot down at least three planes, won both the Military Cross for valor and the Distinguished Flying Cross, toward war's end helped run Britain's Transport Group as an air commodore. When he took on the BOAC job five years ago, even his friends thought he was showing bravery far beyond the call of duty. BOAC had a bewildering variety of planes, most of them obsolete ex-bombers, patrol boats...
...range of 460 miles, has been battle-tested for a year in Korea. Fifteen of them, flying in relays over a period of six hours, once moved a battalion of fully equipped infantry into a front-line area in 48 hours less time than normal motor transport...