Heaven Is in the Sky

From Hollywood, the CBS Radio Workshop. He loved airplanes. He'd lived and breathed airplanes. His heaven was in the sky. It was just airplanes. He was building a model the morning he died. CBS Radio presents the CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind.

The empireion is no longer empty, where Apollo once drove his fiery chariot across the front moment, the afterburners of supersonic jets blast the stratosphere. As the airplane has shrunk the earth, so has the air in which it flies been shrunk.

A five hundred mile an hour plane needs space in which to fly. More space than exists above our crowded land. And with tragic frequency, modern Icarus is learning that what goes up sometimes comes down in flames. Not quite four months ago, death fell without warning on a little California community, fell into a crowded schoolyard from a peaceful sky. You are about to hear

what happened that day in the words of those to whom it happened, those who live beneath our shrinking air. The CBS Radio Workshop presents a human document. Heaven is in the sky, produced and directed by William N. Robson.

At 10.15 AM, January 31, flight engineer Waldo Adams dressed the four throttle knobs in his right hand and slowly pushed them forward. Pilot William Carr, responding to the mighty pull of the engines, he is the wheel slowly back, keeping his feet steady on the rudder pedals.

And the latest DC-7B took off from Santa Monica Airport on its first functional fight after manufacture. At 10.30 AM, radio operator Roy Nakazewa reported to Santa Monica Tower that the DC-7B was over Catalina Island at 9,000 feet and climbing.