Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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How many lives and how much money would be saved if airlines would lower schedule reliability by about 1% because of bad weather?
My friend's mother in New Jersey did not share our enthusiasm and tempted us away from danger--first with common sense (you never know when those little planes will run out of gas), then with theatre tickets, and finally, in desperation, with an acquaintance's condominium in St. Thomas...
Eastern Air Lines President and Chairman Frank Borman, who commanded the U.S.'s first mission around the moon, exhorted his fellow executives to be even more conservation minded. "I am the only one here," he said, "who had the opportunity of viewing the world from 240,000 miles out...
Even more puzzling, perhaps, was how Pilot McKenzie found himself in the midst of a storm so filled with hail that the radar of a trailing jetliner detected what appeared to be a solid form in the black clouds-a great, ominous "hook" in the sky. Since the early 1920s...
ST. THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS: The short runway at the Harry Truman Airport gives jet pilots too little margin for error, and was blamed for the crash of an American Airlines jet last year. Construction of a runway extension has not yet begun, though federal funds have been made available.