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Accompanied by a second helicopter flying as gunship, the chopper lifted off its pad and headed for Beirut. The chosen route was along the border between Lebanon and Syria, so that radar scanners in either country might assume that the two helicopters came from the other side and were flying a routine mission. Meanwhile, other choppers with a back-up team aboard flew over the Mediterranean toward Lebanon; they would land near Beirut if the first team was discovered and shot down...
Advances in metallurgy and aerodynamics make such disasters much less likely today. NASA's Ohio windmill, for instance, borrows directly from helicopter design. Like a chopper's rotor, the 2,000-lb. blades can be "feathered" (or turned on their axes), by manual control; they will continue to whirl at a steady 40 r.p.m. even as the wind varies. In future NASA models, chip-sized computers developed for spacecraft will monitor the performance of the windmills and automatically command them to adjust to wind changes...
...Barrientos, Bolivia's President from 1964 to 1969, who received a $ 110,000 helicopter from Gulf in exchange for doing what he could to forestall nationalization and assure the company of lucrative drilling rights in Bolivia. (Barrientos died in a helicopter crash six years ago; officials assert the chopper was not the craft purchased by Gulf.) Still to be accounted for are two additional payments of $240,000 and $110,000 to Barrientos supporters...
...Finally, at 5 p.m. Washington tune-it was then 5 a.m. in Saigon-Kissinger told the President that Martin was closing down the embassy and destroying its communications equipment. Minutes later, a helicopter broadcast the message: "Lady Ace Zero Nine, Code Two is aboard." Lady Ace 09 was the chopper's own call signal; Code Two designates an ambassador...
...week, another seven or so South Vietnamese helicopters had landed or tried to land on the U.S. naval vessels. One South Vietnamese pilot set his chopper down on top of another whose blades were still whirring. Others ditched their craft and had to be fished out of the water. An American search-and-rescue helicopter from the U.S.S. Hancock crashed at sea, and two of its four crew members were listed as missing, possibly the last American fatalities...