Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unabated for a decade. The category embraces everything from a $5,000 secondhand Piper Cub used for weekend joyrides to a $6.5 million, 18-seat Grumman Gulfstream executive jet crammed with the latest airborne electronics. In between are the twins, turboprops and smaller jets operated by some 2,200 air-taxi operators and 200 commuter airlines. This year alone, companies such as Cessna, Beech and Piper will deliver 18,000 aircraft worth $1.8 billion to customers around the country...
...fatal accidents, compared with 702 in general aviation. The difference can be explained partly by the airlines better pilot training, partly by better equipment. For an average fee of $1,500, any fit 17-year-old can sign up for 16 hours of classwork and 35 hours in the air at an FAA- approved school to obtain a private pilot's license. A commercial license requires more: between $3,500 and $4,000 and 250 hours of flight time. But it is a cosmic leap from this to an Air Transport rating of 1,500 flying hours minimum followed...
Notes on a September morning: Up in the dark out in the Maryland suburbs. Air crisp, sliver of a moon still high. Roar of the Potomac River's great falls from over the hill. George Washington used to tarry there. Headed down the valley to breakfast with Jimmy Carter, 189 years after George, but land still beautiful in first light Mist rising over water. Sun burnishing the East. Past Teddy Roosevelt's hiking island, Lyndon Johnson's memorial pine thicket, John Kennedy's flame. Glorious city ahead in sparkling dawn. Everything looks, feels better with President...
Carter's hands are long, expressive, almost like those of a musician. Over and over he spreads fingers and forms imaginary globe, trying to put things together. Sweeps long forefinger through air. Chops with flat hand...
...angry orator was Maria Imelda (Imee) Marcos, 22, elder daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Imee's outbursts coincided conveniently with her father's efforts to renegotiate the terms of American compensation to the Philippines for the use of the 191,705 acres occupied by Clark Air Base and the large Navy installation at Subic...