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...being readied for use by test pilots who this fall will fly F-16 jets with voice- control equipment through simulated air and ground attacks. Rather than punching keys and flipping switches, pilots will bark out orders like "Arm the missiles!" Computers will then do the work, leaving the airmen free to concentrate on their targets...
...indulgent. Excerpts from her letters are forgettable; she has little to say about other writers, and does not appear to have seriously concerned herself with the social and political events of her exciting times. World War II found her dabbling in spiritualism and writing an esoteric novel about lost airmen living in an astral dimension. "Nearly impossible to decipher, it is an upsetting book, as everywhere there is evidence of a disturbed consciousness," writes a fretful Guest. References to breakdowns and Swiss clinics indicate that H.D. was more unbalanced than her tactful biographer suggests...
...selection should go to the heroic Argentine airmen who, with total disregard for their lives, made the British pay a high price to re-establish colonialism in the South Atlantic...
...commander of a U. S. base in England said to his airmen: "May I have your attention, please? This is what we have been waiting for. This is invasion morning." His young men went out to their planes, and up into the Channel dawn...
...numbers are often put in simultaneously. The co-pilot (or other crew member) on Flight 007 could have simply misread the coordinates from his chart when he punched them into the computer. It is standard procedure for the other crew members to double-check these navigational entries. But airmen have been known to skip this precautionary step...