Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chopper ferried Captain Hawkeye Pierce homeward from Korea, the 2½-hr. final episode of M*A*S*H became the single most watched show in TV history. Based on Nielsen measurements, CBS claimed that an estimated 125 million people saw all or part of the final show, garnering 77% of last Monday night's audience. M*A*S*H surpassed the previous alltime leader, the 1980 "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of Dallas. With 30-second commercials selling for as much as $450,000, the highest price in history, the program earned CBS some $14 million...
...time. But no amount of money could turn a sitting duck into a soaring eagle. So the Cheyenne program was dropped in favor of the AH-64 Apache helicopter. The cost overruns on that project have forced up its price from $9 million to $17 million per chopper (more than an F-16 fighter) and even the Army balked at paying the builder, Hughes Helicopters. The Apache also has a characteristic that its pilots find disconcerting. To fire its laser-guided missile the AH-64 has to hover motionless in the open for up to 30 seconds, a difficult...
...would be an expensive machine to lose in combat, so the Army began searching for a cheaper, smaller scout and observation chopper. It settled on the OH-58 Kiowa. The contractor, Bell Helicopter, apparently followed the time-honored practice of "buying into" a contract by submitting an artificially low initial estimate. Within two years, the projected cost of the total scout program doubled, from $1.3 billion to $2.7 billion, even though the number of aircraft to be bought was reduced from 720 to 578. Part of the problem is that the scout's complex laser sight has run into...
...chopper reporter dies...
Within the past few years, broadcast crews have died in helicopter crashes near Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and Miami. Last New Year's Day, a Denver team survived a forced landing and a subzero night spent stranded, after its chopper headed into a blinding snowstorm to cover a small commercial plane crash...