Word: airs
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...just south of Aquinnah. When they had not turned up by 2:00 a.m., a family friend reported them missing, and the search began about an hour later. The FAA began checking airports along the route. At 7:30, once the sun was up, the Coast Guard and Air National Guard combed the waters from Long Island Sound to Cape...
...first choice to accomplish the family's ascent to real power was his eldest, Joe Jr. When Jack Kennedy made the papers for his exploits as skipper of PT-109, the father sent the press clippings to Joe Jr., then a 29-year-old naval air lieutenant, to provoke him into getting started on his own heroic legend. It worked all too well. In the summer of 1944, Joe Jr. volunteered to fly a plane loaded with explosives into a Nazi missile site. The plan was for him to bail out before the plane struck its target. Instead...
DIED. DONALD ENGEN, 75, head of the National Air and Space Museum and a much decorated Navy pilot; when the glider in which he was a passenger crashed near Minden, Nev., while he was on vacation with his wife. A gliding enthusiast who headed the FAA in the 1980s, Engen oversaw the exhibition of such gems as the Spirit of St. Louis, which Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic...
...procurement of rabbits for troops to kill and eat as part of soldiers' survival training. Service members trapped behind enemy lines may have to live for days on the run, and the ability to find food can be critical to their survival, defense officials say. That's why the Air Force routinely orders hundreds of 5-lb. rabbits ("any color...any breed," according to a purchase request) for $7 each. Instructional aids for the survival course include a "club to kill animal...
...York attitude is more than "rudeness." For those of us fortunate enough to grow up here in the Big Apple, elitism comes as naturally as breathing the heavily polluted air. As any of my friends from other cities will tell you, I'm the first to brag about New York and its offerings and I'm very quick to dismiss its alleged flaws...