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...Despite mounting international criticism and indications that bombers were missing their targets, allied forces continued their campaign against the Baghdad regime, striking military installations in northern Iraq. U.S. and British officials said the latest attacks are intended to degrade Iraq's increasingly sophisticated anti-aircraft capabilities; in January allied planes patrolling the no-fly zone came under fire more often than they did all of last year. But the Pentagon admitted that more than half the bombs dropped in a raid on Baghdad earlier this month had gone astray. Both the U.S. and Britain said they will consider changes...
FUEL 22 gal. of 110 octane in a rubber-like bladder designed for aircraft...
...deserves the attention it is enjoying. The birth of titanium cool probably started in 1997, when architect Frank Gehry used it in abundance for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Until then, the metal had been largely under cover. During the cold war, it was used primarily to build aircraft. When this need abated, the titanium industry promoted its other uses. Up to four times as strong as steel and half the weight, titanium is ideal for tennis rackets and skis. More cost-efficient ways to cut the metal were developed after golfers clamored for titanium clubs...
...Ailing Aircraft...
...read your article "Wounded Osprey" [NATION, Feb. 5], an old saying kept popping into my mind: "Necessity is the mother of invention." What necessitates the use of this aircraft? The cold war is over, and we are not at war. So why is the military so careless with the lives of those who must take the risk of flying the Osprey? This nation put a man on the moon in less time than it has taken to get this aircraft off the ground with doors that open and functional cooling-heating and communications systems. Sometimes the art of being...