Word: airing
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...policymakers apparently overestimated the coercive effects which the air attacks could generate [in Vietnam]...Graduated escalation allowed time for the enemy to react to the U.S. pressures and sustain its morale, will and physical support of the war." --FROM CLARK'S THESIS...
...force presses you back into your seat at takeoff from the air base at Aviano, Italy, or from an aircraft carrier in the Ionian Sea, you are really never flying solo. You and your wingmen move into a complicated choreography charted for each of the 400 daily sorties. Depending on how far you've had to fly--B-2s fly more than 15 hours from the U.S.--it's likely your plane will slow down to gulp fuel from an aerial tanker before your final run into hostile airspace. One of every three flights is an aerial tanker sortie--more...
...head in behind a SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) package. These Navy EA-6B radar-jamming planes and Air Force radar-killing F-16CJs scour the skies for electronic clues betraying a SAM radar. As you plunge deeper over enemy territory between 15,000 and 25,000 ft., there's an aerial ballet taking place far above: a layer of F-15Cs ensuring that no Serbian pilot gets close enough to take a shot...
NATO remains flummoxed by the limp Serbian air defense. The Pentagon suggests it signifies allied success in taking down the Serbian air-defenses, by attacks, jamming and corrupting data, which the allies have fed into Yugoslav computers through microwave transmissions. Pentagon analyst Franklin Spinney says Serbia's plan echoes its World War II tactics. The Germans sent 700,000 troops into Serbia but were unable to root Serbian partisans out despite four years of fierce fighting. "The Serbs are using their air-defense system as a quasi guerrilla force to capture the attention and distract the focus of NATO air...
...worse, but some good reasoning must have been behind such a decision. Admittedly, the original Broadway and first national tour productions of Tommy were horrifically expensive--bright costumes, extensive audio-visual equipment (including a border of TVs that framed the set) and a pinball machine that whirled in mid-air before exploding all cost money. True, fancy props do not necessarily a great musical make (Disney's hackneyed and overpriced Beauty and The Beast: The Musical, for example.) But when combined with the already-dazzling score of Tommy, the effects of the original production truly were phenomal...