Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film the exploding helicopter, the hardest shot of all, the shell of a Viet Nam-vintage Huey chopper was filled with explosives and hoisted aloft on a 220-ft. cable by a larger Chinook. Then it was hung by cables attached to the rock itself. Either the cables were not fastened tightly enough, however, or a rock sliced them apart, because the Huey fell to the ground and exploded before cameras could...
Jones located another chopper body and tied it more firmly to the rock. Demolition Expert William Balles loaded it with C-4 plastiques, 50 gal. of gas, and black powder wrapped in naphthalene-a mix designed to make the explosion as fiery as possible. A special "cable-cutting" charge was planted to send the Huey tumbling at just the right moment. When the copter blew up, on cue this time, the sound was heard 40 miles away. One local radio station called it a sonic boom...
...over a heavily fortified complex in the heart of the war-torn capital and flicked on its landing lights. For the last time, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle gazed down upon the bunker that had been his combination home and command post for the past 20 months. Then the chopper alighted at Las Mercedes Airport, where Somoza's private jet was standing by. Moments later, the wan and pasty-faced dictator, drooping with fatigue, was on his way into exile...
...outraged Bundestag investigating committee revealed last week, the suspects had been virtually handed over to the federal crime police antiterrorist squad by an observant helicopter pilot in Michelstadt, Karin Rieger. She reported that the three fugitives, equipped with a camera and video-tape equipment, had chartered her chopper for several flights over the Rhine Valley, ostensibly to film historic castles. Rieger became suspicious when she noticed that the supposed "film crew" not only handled their equipment awkwardly but repeatedly insisted on flying over the Frankenthal prison, where three other notorious terrorists have been locked up. They also made extensive photographs...
Outside again, the Prince ducked into the pilot's seat of his chopper, hovered long enough for an expansive wave to the crowds below and then aimed for Cardiff Castle, where the Royal Regiment of Wales waited for him to open a museum...