Gently as a gnat touching meringue, a blue-and-silver three-seat helicopter last week eased down onto a yellow marker on the White House lawn. Correspondents duly noted the executive mansion's, first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington's heavy ground...
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