Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marijuana at twelve. She lost her virginity early. She says she doesn't use birth control and doesn't worry about getting pregnant. The youngest, Myndell, already has a taste for street life. He likes to dress sharp and pressed his mother until she bought him a $200 bomber jacket. Not long afterward, some neighborhood thugs relieved him of it at gunpoint...
Still smarting over glitches in its newly activated B-1B bomber, the Air Force is now catching flak over its aircraft of the future, the radar-elusive Stealth bomber. Congressional critics say that technical and managerial problems are exponentially raising the project's cost. A reported $8 billion will be spent on the plane before it enters production early next year, and each of the 132 aircraft could cost more than $300 million, $23 million above the original price...
...White House briefing to waiting microphones and told the nation that the President would discuss an impending U.S. attack on Libya that night. That, claimed North, gave Libya time to get its antiaircraft defenses set and led to the death of two American airmen shot down in their bomber...
...press stories, all based on Administration sources, that had been predicting such a strike for more than a week. So widespread were the Pentagon tips that dozens of correspondents had traveled to Tripoli to await the air strike. Moreover, the Pentagon has never established whether the F-111 bomber was downed by enemy fire or had ditched in the sea before coming in range of Libyan guns...
...Rutan and Yeager could not raise enough money to bring the aircraft along. A plan to fly Voyager to Paris on an Air Force cargo plane was rejected by a bureaucrat labeled a "pinhead" by an industry journal. What the U.S. chose to display instead was the B-1B bomber, a dark and menacing $285 million war machine. The B-1B, designed to travel to its target through hostile combat environments, demonstrated only one flaw: its engines refused to start when the aircraft was scheduled to leave Le Bourget. A special power unit had to be flown from West Germany...