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...killing, Testrake testified, took place during negotiations between airport authorities and the other hijacker over refueling the aircraft. Prosecutors have identified him as Hassan Izz-al-Din, a Lebanese who remains at large. "The hijacker began screaming into the radio," said Testrake. "He turned to his accomplice and screamed ((in Arabic)) what sounded like an order." According to Testrake, Hammadi pulled Stethem, who had been bound and beaten unconscious, to his feet and out of Testrake's view. "I heard a single pistol shot, and then the other hijacker screamed at me to tell the tower that one passenger...
Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmermann, 48, told of accompanying Hammadi to inspect the aircraft's exterior while it was on the tarmac in Algiers a few hours later. "Hammadi pointed to the door and the blood((stains)) running from the sill," said Zimmermann. "He made gestures to the pistol and himself . . . indicating that he was proud of his gun and himself for causing this." Hammadi repeated his denials that he had killed Stethem...
Campbell said that the students will have to pay for the round-trip flight to Omaha. Two years ago the class made the trip by military aircraft...
...model planes. Astronaut John Glenn bought 10 cents Comet kits more than a half-century ago, and the flimsy model planes he built launched him into space. Baugher, too, has a real-life side to his hobby: he is one of the few professional flyers of radio-controlled small aircraft. Baugher works for the AAI Corp., which does high-tech, often secret work on drones, those unmanned aircraft that may someday patrol the skies guided by electronics from distant command posts. Pursued in his off-hours, his hobby is part of an industry that is now worth hundreds of millions...
There was romance, too, on the broad, open fields of Virginia. The story of flight was re-enacted with models -- correct down to the fabric, wires and rivets -- of those old, often ungainly aircraft that took the first pioneers aloft. Larry Kruse, a dean of Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kans., launched his replica of a 1911 Voisin into the fitful afternoon breezes. An almost perfect twelve grams of craftsmanship with a 13-in. wingspan, the plane is powered by a rubber-band motor turned 2,300 times. The Voisin bucked and churned, its tiny pusher propeller sending...