Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driving easily through a moderate sea, the vast U.S.S. John F. Kennedy catapulted jet aircraft into the night about 70 miles east of Sicily. One after another, the F-14 fighters braced on the catapults, revved their engines to a screech, then were flung off the bow of the 87,000-ton carrier. The red glow of their afterburners traced their progress as they climbed into the blackness...
...billion-dollar manufacturing giants raged in boardrooms, courts and newspaper financial columns. Then overnight last week one of the nation's bitterest takeover struggles ended. Otis Elevator Co., the world's leading manufacturer of elevators and escalators, stopped fighting a bid from United Technologies Corp. (formerly United Aircraft), the world's largest builder of aircraft engines, to buy all shares tendered to it by Otis stockholders. By week's end, when the offer expired, United claimed that it had bought more than half of Otis' 8.1 million outstanding common shares at $44 each, giving...
...Expansion of the "aircraft exemption." Now any truck or bus serving an airport needs ICC authorization if its operating radius exceeds 25 miles. This would be increased to 100 miles, presumably allowing more vehicles to serve wider areas...
...ideal craft for that country's air defense system. It was a technological marvel with a maximum speed of 1,450 m.p.h. and a reputation as the hottest fighter in America's arsenal. In West Germany, however, the Starfighter has won no encomiums; the aircraft has instead become known as the "widow-maker." In the 15 years that the Luftwaffe has been flying the F-104s, 178 have crashed, claiming the lives of 85 pilots...
Many theories have been offered to explain the accidents. The Starfighter had been designed by Lockheed Aircraft as a high-altitude, fair-weather interceptor. But the Luftwaffe modified it, converting some models into all-weather fighter-bombers and others into reconnaissance planes. The changes added weight to the aircraft, presumably making them even more tricky to handle. According to one veteran U.S. Starfighter pilot, controlling the unmodified models was difficult enough. "To fly it properly you must have fingers like a concert pianist," he says. Other observers felt that West German support crews lacked the technical expertise to cope with...