Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promised a thorough search for other aircraft, but as of last night its efforts had been unsuccessful. Meanwhile, the TWA strike reportedly is far from settlement as it enters its 35th day today...
...Soaring puts it back." Hang-gliding and soaring have common roots in the 19th century, when English Inventor George Cayley and later, German Engineer Otto Lilienthal began applying their knowledge of birds to efforts to get man off the ground. After World War I, the Versailles Treaty denied military aircraft to the vanquished and the Germans trained some 50,000 glider pilots. Americans began picking up the gliding habit in the late 1920s; in 1939 three brothers, Ernest, Paul and William Schweizer, set up the Schweizer Aircraft Corp. in Elmira, N.Y., which is still the principal American manufacturer...
...acknowledged that the U.S. was still supplying arms and equipment to Israel. Relations between the U.S. and Egypt had been broken off early in the Six-Day War of 1967 by Sadat's predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He charged-wrongly, as it turned out-that planes from U.S. aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean had helped Israeli jets attack Egypt at the start of the war. Since then, U.S. interests in Egypt have been represented by Spain, while India took care of Egyptian affairs in Washington...
...Reduced the Government's allocations of jet fuel for aircraft, a move that will diminish the number of commercial flights by more than...
...downtown streets, the familiar glow of neon signs is missing. Against the horizon, the 30-story Georgia-Pacific Building and 40-story First National Bank Tower loom like abandoned hulks, their silhouettes illuminated only by a meager handful of office lights and the winking red beacons that warn aircraft that the buildings still stand...