Word: aerials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more light-hearted section that reveal Norfleet's humor. "Toys" is a charming (well, as charming as beetles really can be) whimsical photograph of three insects flying kites. (The kites are also other insects, which suggests darker connotations to "having fun.") The tension throughout the book between terrestrial and aerial insects is successfully addressed in this photograph through the device of the kite's string, which acts as a unifying force between the sky and the sand...
After all, the Kirkland auctioneer had it right when an aerial photo of the house came up for bidding. "Come on people," she urged, "this is your house. This is where you've spent three years of your life...
...your wingmen move into a complicated choreography charted for each of the 400 daily sorties. Depending on how far you've had to fly--B-2s fly more than 15 hours from the U.S.--it's likely your plane will slow down to gulp fuel from an aerial tanker before your final run into hostile airspace. One of every three flights is an aerial tanker sortie--more of them than attack flights...
...SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) package. These Navy EA-6B radar-jamming planes and Air Force radar-killing F-16CJs scour the skies for electronic clues betraying a SAM radar. As you plunge deeper over enemy territory between 15,000 and 25,000 ft., there's an aerial ballet taking place far above: a layer of F-15Cs ensuring that no Serbian pilot gets close enough to take a shot...
...NATO officials" to carry on. TIME lifestyle senior editor Richard Zoglin, a longtime television observer agrees: "The only up close and personal stuff we have seen is from the refugees. And almost all of the information on the military damage has been filtered by the Pentagon. Those NATO aerial shots have kept the war at a distance...