Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baretta, among other television shows. Doubling for a villain on the Bionic Woman, she speeds neck and neck with Lindsay Wagner in a dune-buggy chase before losing spectacularly in a sandy somersault. In Airport 77, a recycled crash caper, she torpedoes through the high waters of a flooding aircraft cabin to rescue a small...
...Netherlands, rode in their 1898 golden coach to the opening of the Dutch Parliament. Just a month earlier Bernhard had ceased all official duties and resigned his post as armed forces Inspector General after a government investigation uncovered "extremely imprudent" links between the prince and the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Despite the gray civvies that replaced the favorite naval uniform he had relinquished...
Belenko's flight began at the Sokolovka airbase, 100 miles east-northeast of Vladivostok, where the Soviets are believed to maintain squadrons of their best interceptor aircraft. According to his Japanese interrogators, Belenko had been planning his defection for two years. "There is no freedom in the Soviet Union," he told his interrogators. "Nothing has changed since the czars. It's a suffocating country. You can tell the truth only when drinking vodka with your friends." Furthermore, his marriage was breaking up; he was alienated from his wife and small child, and apparently felt that his defection would...
Search for Secrets. Belenko's delight was shared by members of an elite group of U.S. Air Force technicians, known as the Foreign Technology Division. The division normally must draw its conclusions about the capability of foreign military aircraft by such means as electronic eavesdropping and reports and pictures from agents. Now they have the chance to kick the tires and feel the rivets of a plane about which they had only fragmentary information...
...highest in aviation history for a two-plane crash, exceeding the casualty list of 162 five years ago at Morioka, Japan, when a Japanese fighter with a student pilot at the controls plowed into an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727. Even so, in an era of constantly expanding aircraft capacity, the Yugoslav accident was not the worst crash on record. That doubtful honor still belongs to a Turkish Airlines DC-10 jumbo that crashed near Paris two years ago, killing all 345 people aboard...