Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aerospace industry has long booked itself on a nonstop flight into the future, speeding from one set of new aircraft to more advanced successors on the horizon. Now the horizon is empty, and has been since Congress shot down the American supersonic transport two years ago. For the first time since World War II, U.S. aerospace companies have no new generation of silvery flying ships that is imminently scheduled to zoom off the drawing boards and onto the production line. Some aerospace men are not bothered by what they regard as a welcome breathing spell, but others are. Says Eastern...
...than others. New England will suffer the most. In Rhode Island, where the U.S. Navy is the biggest employer, more than 21,000 people will be thrown out of work with the closing of the Newport naval base because of lack of facilities to handle today's huge aircraft carriers. In Massachusetts, 6,700 people will lose their jobs when the venerable Boston naval shipyard is closed because of inadequate docking facilities. Equally hard hit by the cuts is Hunters Point shipyard in San Francisco. Of the 5,184 civilians slated to lose their jobs, many are members...
...armored corps in a smoldering heap in the Mitla Pass. Let no one forget the "War of Attrition," including that memorable day in 1970 when the Israelis trapped Soviet MiGs just north of Cairo in a pincer of Phantoms and Skyhawks and shot down five of the Russian-piloted aircraft. Many of these stunning achievements were made possible, to be sure, by a steady flow of funds from the U.S. ($9 billion in public and private aid of all kinds since 1948), but through their courage and resourcefulness the Israelis have made the deeds their...
...North Vietnamese are taking no chances. The Price of Peace cuts from joyous throngs in Hanoi last February celebrating Tet to anti-aircraft crews drilling, still watching and waiting. In a stunning, red-filtered rapid-fire sequence, the film then returns to the awful scene last Christmas. Air raid sirens wail in the background, Hanoi's people retrace familiar paths to their bomb shelters, gun crews peer upward into the darkness, bombs carpet the screaming night, missiles streak skyward, periodically to rendezvous with their unwilling targets...
...nothing more complicated than pilot fatigue. It noted that all six crashes, in which 257 lives were lost, occurred during takeoff and landing, "when the work load is highest and fatigue at its worst." In five of the accidents, "the crew apparently flew a fully serviceable aircraft into the ground...