Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...divers recovered the voice and data recorders from the wreckage of flight 800, NTSB Vice Chairman Robert Francis said that the investigation into the crash is closing in on an explanation for the crash: "There is evidence down there that is going to tell us what happened to this aircraft." Analysis of the voice recorder shows that two minutes before TWA flight 800 exploded and crashed, the cockpit crew was casually discussing an erratic fuel flow gauge on the number four engine. Other than that, Francis said, the 747 was operating without any "anomalies." Experts are still analyzing the unidentified...
...honorable occupation, but it's not rocket science. It requires only limited skill and technology, and the country with the lowest wage tends to get the business. That's why China sells so many sneakers to Americans, including David Clay, 42, a toolmaker who helps build humpbacked Boeing 747 aircraft in a giant hangar just north of Seattle...
That ought to mean that, under various trade treaties, China buys U.S.-built aircraft the way Americans buy the shoes, toys, clothes and other products--$45 billion worth last year--that China can deliver at better value. But that's not happening. Instead, China refuses to buy planes, as well as cars, cellphones and other U.S. products unless the American manufacturers agree to establish more factories there, transferring precious technology and skills...
...abide by China's demands: for example, in shifting half of the tail-section production for its 737s from Wichita, Kansas, to Xian. "If we hadn't moved work to China," Clarkson says, "we wouldn't have got orders." China is expected to spend $185 billion on commercial aircraft over the next 20 years...
...NASA's Gary Payton put it. All three contenders proposed a fully reusable vehicle (the current shuttle jettisons its expensive boosters and fuel tank). All three eliminated astronauts (although people, as pilots or passengers, could be added later). Lockheed, however, pushed the envelope the furthest. Much like the experimental aircraft of the 1970s, the entire surface of the stubby, wingless craft is used to create lift, saving fuel and permitting a slower, cooler descent. This in turn enables Lockheed to replace the present shuttle's pesky ceramic tiles with a reusable metallic sheath...