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Dick Cheney's first target in a second Bush administration may well be to finish a job he never completed as defense secretary in the first Bush administration: Kill the Marines' controversial MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft program. He got a tragic boost in that quest last night when one of the hybrid planes crashed in the North Carolina woods, killing all four Marines on board. The Pentagon is still trying to perfect - and buy - the Osprey a decade after Cheney vainly tried to scrap it during his tenure as defense secretary. The corps, backed by powerful allies...
...This morning, in the wake of the crash, Marine Commandant Gen. James Jones grounded the Osprey fleet and asked Defense Secretary William Cohen to convene a panel of experts to review the program. The Marines also asked the Pentagon to postpone an imminent decision on whether or not the aircraft is ready for full-scale production...
...syndrome, after the college-dropout chairman of Microsoft. But high-tech industries employ only about 9% of the U.S. work force. Amid the hot economy of recent years, a larger group of men--especially those from lower-income families--might be heading straight from high school into fields like aircraft mechanics and telephone- and power-line repair that pay an average of $850 a week rather than taking on a load of college debt. Some social critics blame a dearth of male role models among schoolteachers, and a culture that promotes anti-intellectualism among boys. And, especially in inner cities...
Emboldened by his success with Condor, MacCready set his sights on a second Kremer Prize, [pound]100,000, to be awarded this time for the first crossing of the English Channel by a man-powered aircraft. Piece of cake. In 1979 a greatly improved version of the Condor, the Gossamer Albatross, successfully flew across 23 miles of Channel water...
Another collaboration, with the Department of Defense, has produced a surveillance micro-aircraft with a wingspan of only 6 in. Equipped with a camera, it can fly at speeds of up to 43 m.p.h. And in the works, MacCready says, is an even more diminutive craft that will weigh only half an ounce, including controls, camera and transmitter...