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...reduce drag and are equipped with elevators that eliminate the need for a tail. Beech is keeping the Starship's performance characteristics secret, but early reports suggest it can reach cruising speeds approaching those of business jets at about 40% the fuel cost of a Gates Learjet or a Cessna Citation. The Starship sells for $3.7 million, a little over half the price of a similar-size...
Gorbachev seems to have come up against a similar problem from his own good soldiers. He handpicked Yazov in May 1987, after a quixotic West German peacenik landed in Red Square in a single-engine Cessna (in effect, a piloted cruise missile). That event gave Gorbachev an excuse to purge the Defense Ministry. Ever since the Reykjavik summit in October 1986, Akhromeyev has worn his civvies and served as chairman of the Soviets' arms-control "working group," impressing the American team. Carlucci and Yazov held their own unprecedented meeting in Bern on March 16 and 17, and Akhromeyev will visit...
...fact, the U.S. Customs Service and Coast Guard have more effective aircraft for this job (Black Hawk helicopters and Cessna and Falcon jets) but they need more of them for better coverage. One other practical tactic: the use of tethered balloons with look-down radar (called aerostats). Seven, already authorized by Congress but not yet operational, could cover the border and part of the Bahamas...
...lies an airfield that services only small propeller-driven planes. Not long ago, Costa Rican security forces caught a band of smugglers on the runway as they unloaded 1,100 lbs. of cocaine. The cache, provided by Colombian drug lords, had been flown to Quepos aboard a Panamanian-registered Cessna piloted by a Colombian. A Costa Rican produce-export company served as the front. Had the operation run its course, the shipment would have continued on to Miami for sale in the U.S. The proceeds, estimated at $50 million, would have been laundered in a Panamanian or a Bahamian bank...
Last week Humberto Ortega had other matters to deal with. He announced that Sandinista infantrymen had shot down a single-engine Cessna plane and captured $ an American "mercenary," James Denby, 57, a pilot who divides his time between a corn and soybean farm in Carlinville, Ill., and a ranch in Costa Rica. Two days before the incident, Denby had requested permission to fly over Nicaragua to reach Costa Rica. The Sandinistas charged that Denby was on an espionage mission for the contras. But it appeared that if it came down to comparing the propaganda value of a Denby with that...