Word: airs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Months of B-1 computer programming were compressed into less than 100 hours last week, as Air Force officers and contractors crammed the bombers' onboard computers with the latest intelligence on the radar and surface-to-air missiles they are facing over Yugoslavia. After a B-1 with the new software passed a critical flight test last Tuesday night in Florida, two B-1s were ordered into action two days later. The same night the B-1s debuted, so did the Predator, an Air Force drone able to relay targeting and bomb-damage data to commanders...
Thirteen additional F-117A Stealth fighters left Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for Italy over the weekend. It's not a fun flight: the jets will have to refuel in air 18 times during the 14-hour journey. Stealth target lists include dozens of deeply buried bunkers in and around Belgrade. Though the Serbs are gloating that these Tito-era nuclear-bomb shelters are impregnable, they may be in for a surprise: the Nighthawks are specially trained for such missions. Navy F-18s from the carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt are expected to see action. And the U.S. Army...
...show his true mettle. "I know far more than the reader will ever need to know," says Rowling, an elfin-looking 33-year-old. "I know the names of all the Quidditch teams." Quidditch, for the uninitiated, is sort of like soccer, but it is played in the air on broomsticks, and some of the balls attack the players...
Born in 1952 in Brezice, Slovenia, the son of a Yugoslav air force colonel, Arkan left the country as a teenager. Moving across Europe for the next 20 years, he racked up a formidable criminal record: his seven outstanding Interpol warrants include armed robbery and other crimes. In the '70s he became affiliated with the Yugoslav authorities, and by the mid '80s he was back in Belgrade, working for the state security service. In the late '80s he became the leader of a Belgrade soccer team's fan club, a group that was transformed into his paramilitary unit...
...Portion of Americans who support the air strikes in Yugoslavia...