Word: bac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly a Sparrow. The first encounter took place just north of Hanoi as four Air Force F-4C Phantom II jetfighters, flying "CAP" (Combat Air Patrol) for a bombing strike on the Bac Giang bridge linking Hanoi with China, headed down to their orbit area. At 18,000 feet they picked up "bogies" on their radar, and wheeled to intercept them. Within minutes they spotted six MIG-175 flying level in close formation below them. The MIGs jettisoned their external gas tanks, split up, and with cannons winking, climbed to meet the Phantoms' attack...
Nights & Days. Much more than spray guns went into Lawrence's new-look campaign. Braniff was the first U.S. airline to put into operation the relatively small short-run jet aircraft -in Braniff's case the BAC One-Eleven -providing places like Sioux Falls, S. Dak., with commercial jet service for the first time. Needing only a 48% passenger load for Braniff to break even, the 63-seat BAG One-Eleven has averaged 61.1%. In addition, Lawrence put Braniff's four-engine Boeing jets on a new schedule of daytime flying and nighttime maintenance. As a result...
Rival Images. Britain pushed for more orders for its short-haul BAC One-Eleven jet, which faces stiff competition from Boeing's new 737 and Douglas' DC-9, and its BAC Super VC 10, which seeks to crack the domination of Boeing's 707 and Douglas' DC-8 in the European long-haul market. Italy's Fiat and two German firms displayed plans for a new vertical takeoff reconnaissance craft, the VAK 191. Even the small European countries offered advanced products, such as the Swedish supersonic Saab-35 Draken interceptor and the Dutch Fokker F.28...
...power merely saved the day at Songbe, it turned the tide completely in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu, 100 miles to the southwest. In a sharply executed "search-and-destroy" operation, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes spotted a concentration of some 600 Viet Cong in a dried-out paddyfield, then pinned them down while government troops were heli-lifted in. Surrounded on three sides, lashed by rockets and napalm, the Communists finally broke and ran. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. adviser...
...company is the British partner on the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic plane, which has been hit by heavy development costs and frequent controversy. In the short-range jet field, it got a head start with its sleek BAC OneEleven, of which it has sold 77, including 55 to U.S. lines. But the competition is overtaking the BAC One-Eleven. Douglas has sold 116 comparable DC-9s, including two last week to Australia's Ansett Airways. While Boeing has sold only 21 of its 737s, all were to West Germany's Lufthansa-an order that British Aircraft counted heavily...