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Everyone had a job to do onboard the dying navy reconnaissance plane when it began to fall out of the sky. The two pilots up front were trying to save the aircraft, while the other 22 crew members in back were trying to destroy what was inside it. Two Chinese F-8 fighters had been tracking the plane closely, too closely, for 10 minutes. The U.S. flyers even recognized one of the pilots, Wang Wei, a notorious hotdogger who one time flew so close to an American plane that he could be seen holding up his e-mail address...
...While the EP-3E is an old plane, a model that began flying in 1969, its electronic guts are up-to-the-minute. No EP-3E has ever been shot down or captured, even though the "flying pig," as it is called, is a long-range, slow-flying unarmed aircraft. "The most important thing to the Chinese on that airplane was the data we had collected earlier that day," says Norman Polmar, an independent Navy expert. "That would tell them which of their systems is vulnerable to interception?Are we able to intercept telephone conversations from Chinese naval headquarters...
...aircraft cabin is an unusual environment," says Robert Bor, an aviation psychologist at London Guildhall University. "The altitude, the lower air pressure, the noise - all of those things can lead to hostile behavior." And the little things can make all the difference: the guy in the next seat whose broad shoulders invade your personal seat space, the subtle battles for armrests, overhead bin space and even meal choices. "You are putting people who are unfamiliar with one another in a competitive environment," says Bor, "and that creates rivalry...
...year-old male, and that's why this isn't a story about Viagra, a proven treatment for that dreaded malady. This is a story about what you might reach for before you need Viagra. Let's put it this way: when I was growing up, I occasionally bought aircraft fuel to improve the performance of my Kawasaki dirtbike. It ran fine on gas, but with the higher octane - let's just say DOWN BOY. This is a story of a search for a more personal brand of jet fuel...
RONALD REAGAN Office building, then airport, now aircraft carrier named for Gipper. What's next--Illinois...