Word: bloopers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost," says Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan of the 1938 navigational blooper that earned him a place in aviation history. Leading a parade last week in Hempstead, N.Y., to mark the 50th anniversary of the nearby Cradle of Aviation Museum, the chipper Corrigan, now 80, accepted an altimeter symbolizing his famous flight. The young airplane mechanic took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, heading for California in his rickety Curtiss monoplane. With nothing guiding him save his taste for adventure and his temperamental compass, Corrigan landed some 28 hours later in what he thought was Los Angeles...
...brothers' first attempt at controlled powered flight belongs in history's blooper file. Orville's timepiece read 3 1/2 sec. when the Flyer reared and bounced into a hill. Wilbur had used too much rudder and stalled 15 ft. over the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Orville's turn came three days later, Dec. 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m. He took the clattering rig to an altitude of 10 ft. and traveled through the air for about 40 yds. before coming down hard enough to crack a skid...
...going to change now." What's new, of course, is that by not knowing the details of Oliver North's activities, the President landed in one big heap of trouble. Is America going to forget and forgive that over the next two years? Indeed, won't there be another blooper or two or more if Reagan wanders along leaving all operations in the hands of aides who have not exactly distinguished themselves lately...
...Blue Jays walked Pat Sheridan intentionally to pitch to Balboni. But Balboni, who set a team record with 36 homers this season, hit a blooper into center field that fell between the outstretched gloves of shortstop Tony Fernandez, second baseman Damaso Garcia and center fielder Lloyd Moseby...
...forum ended with blooper clips of a younger President trying vainly to pull up his patios...