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...commitments by approving R. and D. funds for five new weapons systems: the Army's multipurpose LHX helicopter; an advanced tactical fighter for the Air Force; a similar attack plane for the Navy; the all-service JVX vertical takeoff aircraft, which has rotors that tilt; and the C-17 cargo transport plane, which could become one of the most expensive aircraft programs in history, now slated at $40 billion. To the legislators, the $1.3 billion in start-up money no doubt looked piddling. The cost of completing the five systems over the next decade: an estimated $180 billion...
...fire. [The fuselage] broke off right in front of me. All the seats in front of me went the other way." Most of the survivors were in the smoking section. Said one: "That's the first time a cigarette ever saved my life." Even two dogs in the rear cargo section were saved...
...recent years killer bees have been discovered in the U.S. on six occasions, most after hitching rides on cargo ships from Latin America. A swarm was uncovered last year on a ship in Cleveland. Several colonies have been discovered on ships in Texas; on one, the cook was using the bees for honey...
Holy living spirit of the Lord, is this video incomprehensible. O-Zone is flying a cargo plane (the least sexy aircraft imaginable)? But sometimes they’re on the wing, caressing each other’s hairless chests and coming tantalizingly close to making out? And at arbitrary moments, they turn into absurdist comic-book pictures (my favorite is the one of two Indians playing a soccer match against a cowboy)? And in the end, it was all a dream? What...
Every day Mel Fisher greeted crew members from his Florida Keys salvage boats with the same encouraging cry: "Today's the day!" But for 17 years Fisher, 64, was wrong. The day, the one on which he and his 73-member crew would find the cargo of the legendary Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha, never seemed to arrive. Still, Fisher's cheerful shout kept the crew going through the tough, fruitless years when other salvagers gave up the search for the famed and mysterious 17th century mass shipwreck in which eight or nine vessels were lost...