Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skill, experience and equipment to make the voyage. Good friends, they and Newman, a newcomer to ballooning, had spent thousands of hours developing their techniques in Albuquerque, which has become the center of ballooning in the U.S. in part because of its mild weather. All three are experienced aircraft pilots, and Newman, who has 6,000 hours flying time, is qualified to handle an airliner. Since ballooning on this scale is an expensive sport (they estimated the cost of their flight at $125,000), the fact that all are wealthy also helped. Newman is president of Electra Flyer Corp...
...veto the $37 billion military procurement bill, which was an authorization for spending, not a final appropriation. He could have bargained with Congress for what he wanted before the final bill was passed. But he was determined to make a public issue out of the $2 billion nuclear aircraft carrier that Congress had included in the bill over his objections...
...locations, including Washington's National and Dulles airports. But what made Page special and Wilmot very rich was the firm's role as the worldwide sales agent for Grumman Corp.'s twin-jet Gulfstream II, at up to $7 million a model, the Cadillac of corporate aircraft...
...also charged that since 1971 Page executives have made other questionable payments of more than $2.5 million in connection with $60 million in aircraft sales abroad, mostly involving Gulfstreams. According to the SEC, Page gave $200,000 to President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo of Gabon; paid $412,000 to an organization whose secretary was Timothee Ahoua, Ivory Coast Ambassador to the U.S.; passed $900,000 to an outfit controlled by Datuk Harris Salleh, at that time Minister of Industrial Development of the Malaysian state of Sabah; and gave a Cadillac convertible to Uganda's dictator, Idi Amin Dada...
...medical supplies and seed wheat, Page executives rounded them up from U.S. suppliers. Amin gave Wilmorite the contract to build Uganda's new $5 million U.N. mission in Manhattan. Only after Congress began investigating U.S. suppliers selling equipment to Uganda about a year ago did Page break its aircraft service contract with Amin...