Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Selling space in military aircraft to civilians. The Vietnamese air force has made so much money through this practice that the civilian line, Air Viet Nam, has filed numerous complaints. Not only does the air force have more cargo planes (80 to Air Viet Nam's 16), but its pilots generally charge 50% less than the airline...
...came from Cambridge, Mass., about a more widespread future emissions problem: nitrogen oxides from the SST. During the 1971 debate that led to the cutting off of U.S. Government funds for the supersonic transport, environmentalists had voiced fears that nitrogen oxides in the exhaust of the 1,800-m.p.h. aircraft might weaken the ozone shield that protects the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays. The charge was serious, but was it true? The U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find out. After two years of study, M.I.T...
Died. Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, 80, Russian-born aeronautical pioneer; in Manhattan. A czarist pilot who downed 13 German planes in World War I after losing a leg in combat, Seversky settled in the U.S. after the Bolshevik Revolution. He founded the Seversky Aircraft Corp. (later Republic Aviation); helped develop the automatic bombsight, the automatic pilot and in-flight fueling; and built and test-flew a number of advanced fighters and amphibious planes. On the eve of World War II the autocratic Russian clashed with Isolationist Charles Lindbergh by arguing that the Axis could be defeated from the air, then...
...stranded tourists home. And over Tory jeers that the Court Line affair proved Labor's ineptitude in dealing with industry, the government unfurled further nationalization plans: to take control of all British ports and their ancillary operations and to nationalize the country's two largest aircraft makers, British Aircraft and Hawker Siddeley. So far, though, no plans have been announced to nationalize the tourist industry...
...seek financing from U.S. banks instead. There also is a serious political question of how much the U.S. wants to assist the Shah in expanding Iran's sphere of military influence. Though it can operate from land bases, the F-14 is designed to be flown primarily off aircraft carriers, and Iran does not now have any-but high Pentagon officials confirm privately that the Shah is in the market for two carriers. If he can buy them, they probably would be deployed not in the waters of the Persian Gulf but in the Indian Ocean, extending the Shah...