Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naturally, we were a little surprised to find ourselves approached for this illegal sale by the baggage handlers in the airport and even by the Tourist Burma representative himself. But, as we were soon to discover, in Burma the bureaucracy is half the fun, since nothing really works anyway, and nothing is on time. But who really cares, because the people are the friendliest and nicest in the world, and time stopped a hundred years ago anyway. If you're late enough for everything, maybe you'll miss your plane and get to stay another week...
After hot, smelly, noisy Bangkok, full of pollution and sordid massage parlors, Rangoon looked like a blow-up of a nineteenth-century cameo. The last time we drove in a car was the taxi from the airport. First of all, they don't use lights at night--waste of energy. Second of all, most cars don't have starters or a clutch, so a couple of young gentlemen are needed to push the van off. In the city, you see no cars made after 1950, mostly just a few WWII jeeps left behind by Allied soldiers, horse-carriages, and bicycle...
...California desert wind was gusty last week, and the chase plane radioed the pilot that he was coming in a little high on final approach to Mojave Airport, 75 miles north of Los Angeles. But Dick Rutan, 48, was determined not to be waved off. "You betcha I'm going to land the first time," he said, and brought his graceful, eye-catching craft in for a perfect landing. Rutan, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, could be excused for being impatient. He and his copilot, Jeana Yeager, 34, had just spent 111 hours aboard the experimental aircraft Voyager without...
Voyager began life in 1981 as a sketch on a napkin at the weather-beaten Mojave Inn, near the airport. The sketcher was Burt Rutan, 43, an engineer with an established reputation for building quirky-looking but aerodynamically ingenious planes. With his brother Dick and Jeana Yeager (no relation, believes Jeana, to famous Test Pilot Chuck), Rutan had decided to attempt the around-the-world flight...
...Chinese government sent a blunt reminder last week of its determination to keep foreign journalists on a leash. New York Times Bureau Chief John Burns was detained for 15 hours at Peking's Shoudu Airport as he and his family tried to leave the country on a vacation. Officials from the Peking Public Security Bureau told the U.S. embassy that Burns was being investigated for "entering an area forbidden to foreigners, gathering intelligence information, and espionage." After being questioned at the airport, Burns was first escorted to his Peking apartment, where security officers conducted a two-hour video-taped search...