Hanging over us, glistening with ice in the Arctic sunshine, is the largest piece of meat in the world, a huge boneless 120kg chunk of minke whale that drips bloodily down on the Sofie and the landing crew.
By Samuel Taylor Moore The New Yorker, July 13 , 1957P. 68 Captain Moore's story of being in charge of the landing crew for the British rigid airship R-34 which made the 1st westward aerial crossing of the Atlantic in July 1919, landing at Roosevelt Field.
The shuttle has multiple chances on Saturday to land at Kennedy, its preferred landing site, or Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert in California, where landing crews have also been activated.
Roy Kellogg, the captain's son-in-law, and (to his frequent chagrin these last three months) the Bat'kivshchyna's one-man land crew, was hardly surprised.
While the spy plane remains in open view on the airfield where it landed, crew members have been removed to a military guesthouse, where they are sleeping two to a room.
"Land of the Lost Souls" has a teeming cast of characters, who all have street names: there's Old Crow, Twinkies, Bones, Detroit, Shaky, Rubber Man: a jungle-land crew of self-described insiders, mostly on the lookout for one other.
The "La La Land" crew exhibited similar grace.
After landing, the crew was interrogated prior to being released, so that maintenance, intelligence, and other crews could be alerted to the performance of the plane and other items that the crew might have noticed during their flight.
About 15 minutes after declaring an emergency, and while trying to maneuver the bomber back to Diego Garcia for a landing, the crew members realized they had no choice but to bail out, Captain Steele said.
After the hard landing, the crew's third flight attendant – the only one in the rear of the aircraft – made the decision not to open the back exits, she told NTSB investigators yesterday after she was released from hospital.
President Barack Obama has set Nasa the target of landing a crew on an asteroid in 2025, or very soon after.
