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...force presses you back into your seat at takeoff from the air base at Aviano, Italy, or from an aircraft carrier in the Ionian Sea, you are really never flying solo. You and your wingmen move into a complicated choreography charted for each of the 400 daily sorties. Depending on how far you've had to fly--B-2s fly more than 15 hours from the U.S.--it's likely your plane will slow down to gulp fuel from an aerial tanker before your final run into hostile airspace. One of every three flights is an aerial tanker sortie--more...
...instead is bound to complicate relations between the U.S. and Italy,? says Burke, and will make matters more difficult for the current Italian prime minister, Massimo D?Alema, a leftist himself who nonetheless wants good relations with the U.S. ?The verdict will not lead to a closing of the Aviano air base -- it has been a key base for the various Balkan missions,? says Burke, ?but it could lead to a much closer surveillance of how the base operates...
...court-martial. Residents and Italian officials said that earlier complaints about low-flying military planes, both American and Italian, had been ignored. Such aggressive flying has increased in the area since U.S.-led NATO forces have been enforcing a no-fly zone over nearby Bosnia from a base at Aviano, some 60 miles from Tuesday's accident...
...American military officials at Italy's Aviano airbase admit that the plane, an EA-6B Prowler, was flying "well below the approved minimum altitude" when it clipped the cable car wire, sending a gondola crashing to the ground. But they reject Italian claims that the plane was six miles off its assigned flight path. Flight recorder data has been handed over to Italian investigators but the U.S. is clearly conceding at least some responsibility for the tragedy...
...offer. It's gone that way all along between the two services as O'Grady's glory has been parceled out. The Marines admire the pilot himself but resent the Air Force's refusal to let them fly O'Grady from the Kearsarge to his home base in Aviano, Italy. Instead the Air Force insisted they bring O'Grady ashore, where an Air Force jet picked...