Tomorrow, if scientists have their way, Air Force heroes may all be ground-bound, button-pushing missilemen. Today these heroes are still the crinkle-eyed young men wearing silver wings, the plane jockeys who earn their day's pay at a high scream—somewhere around the speed of sound. Their quick, death-weighted decisions would scare a six-gun cowpoke back into the saloon, and the wonder is that their work is still a rarity on television. But last week televiewers had their fill of flying—in both fact and fiction. And even when Air Force technical advisers were looking the other way, neither overexcited writers nor overemotional...
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