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...billion taxpayer investment, needed all the help it could get. Two crashes in the space of eight months had killed 23 Marines, aggravating concerns of the Pentagon about the aircraft's reliability as it weighed going into full-scale production. But now, as the Pentagon begins full-blown probes into both the Osprey and Leberman's conduct, new doubts are being raised about the plane's safety, utility and readiness that go far deeper than the Marines have yet acknowledged...
...desert kicks up sand "brownouts" that can blind pilots and rescuing someone from the sea is made extremely difficult. Marines climbing down ropes from Ospreys in combat simulations aboard ships or oil platforms have to hit the deck and stay there until the aircraft departs or risk being blown overboard. Communications gear aboard the Osprey is so ineffective that the plane cannot efficiently contact other aircraft, nor can it land at some airports without escort planes outfitted with better electronics to guide it safely through the skies...
...Economists will debate forever how much Sept. 11 accounts for their error, but the attacks certainly accelerated the onset of a full-blown recession. The stock market's optimists are betting that the shock of it all will speed the recovery too. Sept. 11 made it impossible for overextended corporations to kid themselves anymore...
Wildcats goaltender Jennifer Huggon has played well of late and kept UNH in many games where it could have been blown out. Huggon was named ECAC goaltender of the week for her efforts against Minnesota last week...
...desert kicks up sand "brownouts" that can blind pilots, and rescuing someone from the sea is made extremely difficult. Marines climbing down ropes from Ospreys in combat simulations aboard ships or oil platforms have to hit the deck and stay there until the aircraft departs or risk being blown overboard. Communications gear aboard the Osprey is so ineffective that the plane cannot efficiently contact other aircraft, nor can it land at some airports without escort planes outfitted with better electronics to guide it safely through the skies...