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After the AWACs radioed the B-1 the location of its new target, aircraft commander Captain Chris Wachter and his crew set about triple-checking the coordinates with the controller. "We want to make sure that we're able to be very precise with our weapons, much like, say, a sniper rifle where it's one shot, one kill," says Wachter. There was silence in the cockpit as crew members handled their assigned tasks. "When we got the word that it was a priority leadership target, you get kind of an adrenaline rush," says Lieut. Colonel Fred Swan, senior weapons...
...Embraer opened a new front in the battle, flaunting its first executive jet, the attractively priced $20 million Legacy. "There is really no competition" between the Legacy and Bombardier's business fleet, sniffed Bombardier spokesman Leo Knappen. "We have a whole family of jets specifically tailored for the executive-aircraft market, while Embraer has simply refitted one of its commercial jets." But as Knappen spoke, the government of India announced it had bought five 10-seat Legacys for use by its top officials. Bombardier - which owns Learjet, the world's most famous business-jet maker, and Global, a line...
...intensive lobbying by a group of flyers and the National Rifle Association, who outmaneuvered opponents including the airlines, other pilots, the TSA and, originally, the White House. The airlines see nothing but trouble in having a firearm - which could in theory be wrestled away by a hijacker, damage the aircraft if fired, or lead to the death of someone who meant no harm - in the same confined space as the plane's controls. Many pilots, on the other hand, want as much security as they can get. "It beats having an F-16 shooting you out of the air," said...
...congressional decision obliged TSA to drop its opposition and design a training program. Its technical aspects, including marksmanship and non-lethal self-defense, were excellent, pilots concurred. But after the 48 flyers - selected from a list of volunteers to bring diversity of gender, type of aircraft, corporation, age and experience - were two days into their training, they got into a combative exchange with a TSA lawyer, sharply questioning some of the rules he was laying out and at one point laughing at his response. That brought a reprimand from a TSA psychologist, and then from the TSA official...
...late, I saw why: the man with the torch had set alight a cache of ammunition. I got close enough to tell that the mound was mostly made up of artillery shells and rocket-propelled grenades. There were also chains of anti-aircraft shells, coiled up like a nest of brass pythons. Even though I was at least 150 feet away, the shock from the first blast knocked me off my feet. Lying on the ground with a mouthful of grass and sod, I watched as the earth erupted with shells and grenades, many of them flying off in random...