Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1980s) and scarce capital for new equipment, the airlines must conserve or face ruin. Under Borman's prodding, Eastern has increased its passengers 10.4% while reducing fuel consumption 7.5%. Among the methods: cutting the number of flights, adding seats, and flying at lower speeds. Improvements in subsonic aircraft and engine design promise even greater savings. The energy crisis makes supersonic development hopelessly uneconomic. The Concorde SST uses five times as much fuel per passenger...
When they got where they were not supposed to be, "they had to storm the fortresses" for many of their weapons, Nelson says. He adds that the bravery "was the kind you can only visualize in the Hollywood movies." Hitler sent German tank and aircraft divisions which technologically outdistanced the republican forces, enabling the fascists to bomb Guernica, Madrid and other large population centers in republican control...
...crash was mystifying because modern commercial aviation had apparently solved the problems that brought the DC-9 hurtling out of the sky at 150 m.p.h. The engine was one of the most reliable ever made: Pratt & Whitney's JT8D7, now used by some 2,800 aircraft all over the world. Never in 112 million hours of flying time had rain or hail caused one of these engines-let alone two-to "flame out" (quit). Federal air-safety experts discovered that the engines had ingested a great deal of water and overheated, but they were not sure of the exact...
...tender offer was the latest in a series by United's aggressive chairman, Harry Gray, who became head of what was then United Aircraft in 1972 and promptly set about diversifying his company away from its dependence on Government orders. Since 1972, United's revenues have more than doubled, to $5.2 billion last year, and earnings have tripled, to $157 million; Government contracts have declined from half the company's business to less than a third. United's 1974 takeover of Essex International, a wire manufacturer, and its 1975 merger with Otis Elevator Co., the world...
...Cornell team, headed by Astronomer James Elliot, made its observation last month while flying in a specially equipped C-141 "airborne observatory" through the night sky southwest of Australia. The astronomers had aimed the aircraft's 90-cm. (36-in.) telescope at Uranus, which was passing in front of a distant star in the constellation Libra. By recording variations in light from the star just before and after it was eclipsed by Uranus, they hoped to measure the diameter and study the atmosphere of the planet -which at a distance of 2.8 billion km. (1.7 billion miles) from...