Word: aircraft
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...Federal Aviation Administration established a special federal air regulation to help restore the "natural quiet" to the Grand Canyon. This was done with the support of the air-tour industry. The new requirements confine aircraft to strictly defined and narrow flight corridors. Today 92% of park visitors report that they are not adversely affected by aircraft sound in the Grand Canyon, and backcountry park visitors report seeing or hearing only one or two aircraft a day. The contention that visitors can't enjoy the park because of the "noisy aerial onslaught" is without factual basis. DAN ANDERSON, President National...
...tariffs on 13 makes of Japanese luxury cars, including Lexus and Infiniti, raising their prices enough to make them virtually unmarketable in the U.S. and costing the Japanese automakers nearly $6 billion a year in lost sales. Japan could have retaliated by limiting imports from the U.S., perhaps of aircraft and farm products such as beef. That might have spurred another U.S. retaliation and started a spiral badly damaging economies and shattering financial markets in both countries-the mutually assured destruction theory of trade warfare. Which is why, in Kantor's view, as related by sources in Washington, sanctions lose...
...Grady's escape, I shed tears not only for him but for all the young men who have gone before him and those who will follow after going on dangerous missions. I am the mother of an Air Force pilot. I pray for him fervently because he flies an aircraft from which seat ejection is impossible. Beverly Neuman Paradise, California...
...took off from another Turkish base, bound for the same Iraqi "no-fly zone." They too had an air-tasking order, but with a fatal difference: they were told to set their friend-or-foe system to frequency 52. When the fighters, under orders to shoot down any Iraqi aircraft they encountered, saw two helicopters on their radar screens, their sophisticated electronics failed to identify the choppers as "friendly." After a hurried, heart-pounding attempt to confirm their suspicions visually, the fighter pilots fired two missiles that destroyed the two Army Black Hawks and killed all 26 people on board...
This lethal snafu is likely to aggravate charges that the Air Force has tended to distort and cover up information in its investigation of the incident as well as other accidents involving military aircraft. Senior Army pilots flying in Iraq on the day of the shoot-down discovered the coding glitch after they were called as expert witnesses at the court-martial of Air Force Captain Jim Wang. A top officer aboard the AWACS reconnaissance plane coordinating U.S. aircraft in the region, Wang was cleared last week of all charges in connection with the shoot-down. As the Army pilots...