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...Explosives remain a primary concern of those guarding U.S. flights. The several thousand U.S. Federal Air Marshals who fly on scores of domestic and international flights each day routinely search the aircraft's lavatories for bomb-making components - although the marshals tend to sit in only one section of the aircraft. Although these security agents are armed, and there are also now more armed pilots authorized to use deadly force to stop an attack than there are marshals in American skies, their weapons may be of no use against explosives...
...Back in April 1942, Beck says, it landed in New Guinea with four other brand-new P-39s, all emblazoned with the U.S. Army Air Force insignia, a blue circle containing a white star with a red dot at the center. The Australians on the ground were aghast: Japanese aircraft were marked with a red dot. An Australian officer immediately ordered all of the dots painted over. (Soon after, the red dot was removed from standard U.S. markings...
...Syria - already edgy after Israeli jets buzzed Damascus early in the conflict - reacted by calling up several reserve units, sending special forces and anti-aircraft batteries towards the border, and putting the country's military on its highest state of alert since the war of 1973. Participants at a government-approved conference in Damascus called for the return of the Golan Heights by any means necessary, and openly criticized the regime for its failure to recover the area...
...CLEARED. Ciaran O'Reilly, 46, Nuin Dunlop, 34, Damien Moran, 26, Karen Fallon, 35, and Deirdre Clancy, 36, of criminal damage to a U.S. Navy aircraft at Shannon Airport in February 2003; in Dublin. While the five antiwar activists admitted to causing $2.5 million of damage by attacking the plane with hammers and an axe, they said they were acting to protect lives and property in Iraq. The jury took less than five hours to reach a unanimous decision, an outcome the U.S. embassy plans to discuss with the Irish government...
...seconds Length of the inaugural flight of a one-man, battery-powered aircraft in Tokyo last week, the first flight of its kind 160 Number of conventional AA batteries used to power the plane...