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...Corps' Futenma Air Station in the town of Ginowan, Okinawa, to a less populated part of the island chain. The next day, the U.S. Navy announced that Japan had dropped a long-standing objection and agreed to let the Navy replace its 44-year-old, diesel-powered Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, now stationed at Yokosuka, with a newer, nuclear-powered one. Then came the release of a report on the alliance that outlined the most sweeping revisions to U.S. base deployments and the most far-reaching strategic understandings between the two countries in more than a decade. The report confirmed...
...gone out of flying, try spending an afternoon with Fighter Combat International. Based at Williams Gateway, a small airport in Mesa, Arizona, the company offers flights piloted by former U.S. top guns and air-combat instructors for $345 and up. You'll climb into a German-made Extra 300L aircraft - a plane purpose-built for aerobatic stunts - and hang on tight as your pilot takes you on knuckle-whitening maneuvers at speeds of up to 400 km/h. There's even a chance to engage in mock dogfights, complete with the sound of simulated gunfire and the release of plumes...
AIRPLANE!: THE "DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY" EDITION Who remembers Airport, the blockbuster 1970 melodrama (and its three sequels) about imperiled aircraft and frantic air-traffic controllers? It's this 1980 parody that both defined and dented that disaster genre. Writer-directors David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker (who later profitably spoofed cops in their Police Squad TV show and Naked Gun movie series) set the tone for a generation of movie silliness. Their coolest inspiration: casting "serious" actors, like Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves, who spat out the ludicrous dialogue in flawless deadpan. Bridges: "Looks like I picked...
...flying, try spending an afternoon with Fighter Combat International (fightercombat.com). Based at Williams Gateway?a small airport in Mesa, Arizona?the company offers 45-minute flights piloted by former U.S. top guns and air-combat instructors, for $345 and up. You'll climb into a German-made Extra 300L aircraft?a plane purpose-built for aerobatic stunts?and hang on tight as your pilot takes you on knuckle-whitening maneuvers at speeds of up to 250 m.p.h. There's even a chance to engage in mock dogfights, complete with the sound of simulated gunfire and the release of plumes...
...like increased seat width?in the quest for more inflight space, why not do away with three-quarters of the passengers altogether? That seems to be the philosophy of Eos Airlines (eosairlines.com), the latest carrier on the North Atlantic route. Departing from London Stanstead, Eos's converted Boeing 757 aircraft carry just 48 passengers on the flight to New York (standard 757s hold over 200). These pampered few will dine on nouvelle cuisine and watch first-run movies on personal DVD players, while recumbent on fully flat, 78-inch-long beds. The bed is the centerpiece of the positively decadent...