Word: airporters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Known as "The Zone," Nick is responsible for the busiest radar scope in TRACON. He lands all of Newark airport's planes, and is capable of handling heavy air traffic for hours on end. He's quick, he's sharp, and he's good. In this world of chaos and finite airspace, Nick is the best there...
...having had an awful day in pre-frosh '97's rainy weather. "l had made up my mind. l was going to Stanford, so there was no need to stay here for the remainder of the weekend. l seriously was going to pack my stuff and head to the airport when l met this girl who, after a few hours, decided she was going to convince me to go to Harvard. We hung out the whole day, pretty much ditching most of the pre-frosh activities, and ended up at the football field. While at the football field, she kept...
...time he spent working in a hangar as a big influence on his later designs. Way back in the genetic code of his buildings is a feeling for hangar-like lightness, strength and frugality of consumption that came out brilliantly in such projects as his 1981 design for the airport at Stansted in England. Earlier airports had massive concentrations of ductwork above their ceilings for air conditioning, lighting and electrical services; Foster rethought this completely and realized huge savings in structural mass and energy consumption could be made by shifting the utilities underground, leaving a floating roof and walls that...
...would reapply the lesson himself 11 years later in his $20 billion design for the world's largest airport, at Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong--the last megastructure spawned by the floundering "tiger economies" of Asia. Foster envisaged it as a "horizontal cathedral," with its airy, Y-shaped passenger terminal under the great wing of its roof. It had teething troubles at first--there were cargo and passenger delays when it opened last July--but now, according to Wan Wai Lun, corporate affairs officer of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, "it's incredibly efficient and caters to the passengers...
DIED. IBRAHIM BARE MAINASSARA, 49, President of Niger; in a spray of gunfire, reportedly from his bodyguards, at the Diori-Hamani airport; in Niamey. The shooting came at the end of a frenzied week in which Mainassara's opposition accused him of fixing an election. Niger's Prime Minister said he died in an "unfortunate accident...