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...year and backing up taxiways at airports from Hong Kong to Dallas. To cope with the crowding, carriers are buying larger aircraft, reducing the number of individual flights. A new midrange Boeing 767, which carries as many as 260 travelers, can replace two smaller 727s or Douglas DC-9s...
...about where you would expect Greg Louganis to be after eight dives in the springboard preliminaries. This is something like saying the sun was where you expected it to be at noon. Next up was a moderately difficult reverse somersault that he was accustomed to nailing for 8s and 9s, but this time it went wrong. He jumped almost straight up instead of up and out, spun too close to the board, cracked his head on the board's edge as he rotated backward, and wobbled raggedly into the water. It was the melodrama of the Seoul competition's opening...
...focused on the buildup of ice on the plane's wings while it waited 23 minutes between deicing and takeoff. Another possible factor: pilot inexperience. Copilot Lee Bruecher, 26, who was apparently at the craft's controls on takeoff, had only 36 1/2 hours of flight time on DC-9s. The veteran pilot, Captain Frank Zvonek, 43, had logged only 33 hours as a DC-9 captain...
Want to sell DC-9s for Yugoslav hams, beer and machine tools, or frozen New Zealand lamb for Iranian oil? How about U.S. jet fighters for Greek cement, or a 150 million-year-old Mongolian dinosaur skeleton for West German cars...
...bleak. Air carriers may have to operate at reduced schedules for perhaps a full year, while the Federal Aviation Administration trains new air-traffic controllers to replace those fired by the President last week. This would force the companies to curtail flights of their less efficient planes, including DC-9s and Boeing 727s, and ultimately to accelerate the selling off of the aging planes, which has actually already been under way for months. With fewer planes in the air, more seats would be filled, and discount fares would diminish. Overall industry profits would wind up climbing rather than falling...