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...payoff could be enormous. The nation or group that successfully develops the HSCT is likely to dominate the aircraft market well into the 21st century...
...company. Aerospace firms are forming joint ventures and seeking government subsidies to foot the research bill. NASA is spending $284 million over five years to develop technologies that U.S. companies can apply to their work on the HSCT. Rival U.S. aircraft builders Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have teamed up to design an airframe, as have British Aerospace and France's Aerospatiale, the same partnership that built the Concorde. American jet-engine builder Pratt & Whitney is working closely with its nemesis, General Electric, to build a power plant that is quieter, more economical and clean burning. France's Snecma and Britain...
...carrying bombers airborne round the clock -- was a special icon of the cold-war mythology. But last week Air Force Secretary Donald Rice announced that SAC will be eliminated under a sweeping reorganization of the service. Its nuclear missiles and bombers will join the Tactical Air Command's conventional aircraft to form a single Air Combat Command. "Desert Storm demonstrated that the line between strategic and tactical air power has become blurred," says a report released by Rice's office. "The organization needs to catch...
...affinity between Jerusalem and Washington more strained than ever. Israel, which has traditionally relied on a sympathetic U.S. Congress to circumvent setbacks with the Oval Office, has brushed up against a stern challenger in Bush. With the cold war ended, Israel no longer enjoys standing as Washington's "unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the Mediterranean. Indeed, the Bush Administration believes the biggest threat to U.S. interests in the region stems from the Arab-Israeli conflict, which gives Muslim fundamentalists a stick with which to beat their moderate, pro-U.S. governments. Moreover, Bush, who has a 70% approval rating, knows that...
...shotgun slides out the window, firing a tranquilizer dart into the massive fur-covered rump. Minutes pass. The bear shows no effects. The helicopter drops for a second shot. This time the bear stands its ground, and the pilot, fearing the animal is about to lunge for the aircraft, abruptly noses the chopper skyward. He remembers how a 9-ft. bear once swiped at a helicopter's skids, shredding the pontoons...