Word: blackhawks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Air Force insists that electronic flight-control circuits inside its aircraft are shielded against radar and radio emissions, it closed the radar station completely during a precision-flying exhibition in November by its Thunderbirds aerobatic team. Several Army BlackHawk helicopters have crashed when their pilots flew too close to radio antennas elsewhere and lost control of their choppers. The Air Force has now compiled a list of 300 powerful radio transmitters in the U.S. that its pilots must avoid by a certain distance. The list is secret...
...often allows them to sell twice as many goodies to one homeowner. Dual "entertainment centers," including one for the children, are increasingly common in today's luxury homes. Both centers may be outfitted with records and audio-and videotapes, along with movie and big-screen-TV equipment. At the Blackhawk luxury-house complex in Danville, Calif., one homeowner installed a separate entertainment center with a TV and stereo in the guest suite of his 10,000-sq.-ft. Normandy-style chateau, for those times when his guests might want to relax in style without their hosts...
...most fun she ever had in theater, she says, was one night in Davenport, Iowa, where we have just arrived, when she was on an earlier tour. The bus made it to the Adler theater, but the truck didn't. The cast had to improvise with furniture from the Blackhawk hotel down the street; for the sound of a telephone ringing, they used a cowbell...
...Wyeth finally referred to the cache in an interview with Art & Antiques (see box). That summer Betsy met her husband at the airport in Rockland, Me., and as their eggplant-colored Stutz Blackhawk negotiated the trip homeward, Wyeth told her his story. "I remember the dip in the road," Betsy says. "He said, 'Darling, I have something to tell you. I've given an interview to an interesting man from Art & Antiques. I mentioned some paintings that no one knows about. And that's not fair to you.' And he told me he had been doing a series...
...officials, concerned that the sight of armed soldiers might cause problems, have ordered Trinidad off limits. When the G.I.s need fresh bread, three Hispanic-American soldiers change into civvies and sneak into town in an unmarked Chevy van. "We were ordered to stay away," says Gerald Carroll, 29, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot from Beespring, Ky. "They said it was like Tombstone, Ariz., out there -- people running around the streets with guns...