Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller, lighter, single-engine F-16 is much different-"a fighter pilot's airplane," says Air Force Colonel James Rider, chief of the F-16 test program. At $8 million the F-16 is half as expensive as the big F-15 and much more maneuverable. Although the plane does not have the F-15's speed or payload, it can outmaneuver any other plane in the sky. Among other advances, it has computer-controlled wings that automatically change shape during tight, fast moves, allowing a pilot to shake off a pursuing plane and most missiles in wrenching...
...House proposes to sell to Egypt is the current version of a design that is now 23 years old and has no advantages over the F-15s and F-16s except price (as little as $5 million). But the planes are already the work horses of the Royal Saudi Air Force and could be useful to Egypt at least for defensive purposes. Since they carry two 20mm electric machine guns and 7,000 Ibs. of bombs, they can also be used effectively to support ground troops. Egyptian pilots who trained in Soviet aircraft with Russian instructors may get a shock...
...hundred have turned up in Harar, a day's walk away, where they took shelter in warehouses, their bundles of belongings arranged in a circle around each family. The rest exist in the bush, watching the kites (scavenging hawks) circle their villages. Last week the Ethiopian air force dropped leaflets telling the villagers it was safe to return home. Most declined...
...Creatures Great and Small, AH Things Wise and Wonderful), the Scots-born veterinarian has painted a bucolic picture of his life ministering to four-legged friends in Yorkshire. Herriot, 61, who started writing at 50, now is consulting on scripts for the BBC, which has just begun to air a series based on his work. With it all, Herriot, a pseudonym for James Alfred Wight, still makes barnyard calls six days a week and performs surgery in the middle of the night. "I complain about my work but if I didn...
...same proponents are pushing airlines to use biorhythm, on the grounds that many air crashes occur because of heavy pressure on crew members on their critical days. Indeed, United Airlines tried biorhythm for a year at a San Francisco maintenance facility, but then dropped it. Bernard Gittelson, a former p.r. man who is now the head of Biorhythm Computers Inc., believes the airlines will soon convert to the cause. Says he: "We are only five years from advertising tag lines like 'Our pilots never fly on critical days...