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...there is mounting evidence that even these gadgets may be putting aircraft at risk. A Walkman-type radio tuned to an FM station generates oscillations that can extend 5 ft. to 12 ft. -- far enough, in some planes, to reach the navigation equipment stowed in and around the cockpit. "With their thick wires and vacuum tubes, the old planes probably wouldn't feel a thing," ) says Bruce Nordwall, avionics editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology. "But the low-power circuits in modern aircraft are much more susceptible to interference...
EVEN AS SEARS SLASHED ITS PAYROLL, THE RELENTless pace of layoffs and cutbacks sent America's commercial aviation companies into a tailspin. Faced with plunging airline orders, industry leader Boeing announced that it would cut production of its entire line of aircraft models, which analysts said could eliminate as many as 30,000 of the company's 130,000 jobs. At the same time, struggling McDonnell Douglas said it would slash 8,700 positions from the firm's commercial aircraft division, or 10% of the work force. And Pratt & Whitney, the jet-engine subsidiary of United Technologies, plans to pare...
...British and French warplanes on four missile sites and four command posts in southern Iraq was, as one U.S. official noted, "a spanking, not a beating" -- and an inefficient one at that. The attack destroyed only one of the missile batteries the U.S. claimed were threatening allied aircraft in the skies over Iraq, although officials insisted that all but one of the eight targets were at least temporarily put out of action. More important, they argued, the bombing demonstrated allied resolve to enforce U.N. restrictions imposed after the Gulf War. Based on past experience, Saddam may back down...
...just in car-crazed countries like the U.S. and Japan. The military-communications journal Signal reports that at a military laboratory northeast of Moscow, scientists are conducting a new kind of applied research: painting their automobiles with the stealth coatings designed to protect Russia's high-performance aircraft from detection by radar. Invisible to radar guns, the lab docs expect to zip along the roads ticket-free...
Delventhal said all Union can do is work hard against a Crimson attack with more weapons than an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf...